the elevator

have you ever grappled with despair not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal. I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop the watery weakness that extenuates breath a depth of fatigue that makes lying on the floor a burden an aching pounding in your chest, the broken-glass dryness in your throat the gritty ache in your eyes that makes you want to close them forever? Struggle no more, leaden limbs, free the weary weight. Eyes that struggle, release the light. The body begs to no more fight. In a blur of sluggish thought, I whisper sleep's sweet name. The will has dropped. The yearning stopped. I’ll rest on that distant shore. . . Songs for this: Nessun Dorma by Sarah Brightman Caruso (Live at "Pavarotti International" Charity Gala Concert, Modena 1992) by Luciano Pavarotti, Aldo Sisilli Pie Jesu by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston