No Brakes
No Brakes.
Accelerating at a faster and faster pace
All down hill without a brake
For I have lost control
Feel no longer human
Only smothering consuming darkness
And biting bitter cold
For I lingered in limbo
Alone
For much too long
I was never weak
But strong
I pushed myself too far
Just too many wounds that would not heal
Life but a bed of nails
I know longer feel
Nothing but pain
Left abounded naked in acid train
I yelled out screamed
And no one came
Umbilical chord severed from the world
No one knows the dark places and things I have seen
Wake from a dream to a nightmare
A barren desert where nothing grows
Or is evergreen
A far off uncharted island
Washed up on the shore
I once ate sweet apples
But now they are rotten to the core
A single drop in an endless ocean
So many wasted years
I know what hell is like
Cried a sea of internal tears
Viewing life go by through a telescope
Always on the outside looking in
Hurled myself in the deep end
Then found out I couldn’t swim
Always tiredly holding my head above the water
Kissed the Bosons daughter
Free-falling through the sky
With no parachute
Deemed to hit the ground
Who cares
When there’s no one there
Soon to be forgotten
An unknown name on a weathered grave stone
Hidden from view under dense undergrowth
Lived a torturous life of loneliness
Just I
Me
Alone.
A heart without a home.
Peter Dome©2019.
Copyright © Peter Dome | Year Posted 2019
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