Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Hello? Can you hear me?
I feel like I’ve been shouting my sorrows at nothing at all
Are you ignoring me? Are you even real?
Why have you forsaken me?
I say it while I shake an angry fist at the sky
I sob it desperately in the darkest of nights
Why have you gone and left me to my own devices?
Why have you forsaken me?
You try to tell me, “I am here! Sweet child, I never left!
If only you would look to me, lean on me!”
But the plea falls on deaf ears, always does
I turn my head to you and my eyes are blind
Your outstretched hand that cradles my cheek
Is not felt by my atrophied skin, cold and numb
Because who could ever salvage this body of broken bones?
Who could ever love this vessel of a dead soul?
Copyright © Willow Alviva | Year Posted 2025
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