Swimming in Grief

The grief I carry is so heavy None can sense the weight I feel in my chest. It is crushing me, I feel it in every breath I take, And in each step, I totteringly make. From my heart, all sweet songs are stolen In my ears, fall a dull, hollow resonance Where ever I look, I see only an obsidian hue. My mind has become a wild labyrinth, Where phantoms dance a macabre dance. When I look at the sky, I see, A pallid moon with a paling gleam. My mind has become a sepulcher, Where broken dreams are buried. My spectral frame can no more, endure the aches That surround me and draw me in Like a black hole so dense. I feel I am pulled deeper in and can’t free myself. Now sleep eludes me and it is far from my grasp All I feel is a burning ache, an incinerating pain! There was a time when my laughter Reverberated within the walls of my house I don’t know when anguish took me unaware Like a slithering python, coiling and unwinding, Hungry and angry, tightening its deadly hold on me, Cracking my brittle bones, one by one. When agony like an ever- swelling current sweeps over me I desperately stretch my limbs to swim to a safer shore. Like a dazed baby, kicking and squirming In a desperate bid to save himself from drowning, I try in vain to get out from sorrow’s depths.