PAIN LIVES

How can I live

With pain this grave

How can I grieve

When my voice breaks

My soul is numb

Tears have ceased

My breath falters

And this heart creaks

I am lost, chained to this torture

Slaved to a heart that burns beyond measure

When death came hunting

In a senseless spree of pleasure.

Liquor I have embraced

In its berth, I have drowned

Yet its solace eludes me

Peace mocks me

Its silence, Mean

A soundless brute, searing through my being

My head wanders, it wonders

I am empty, a man shattered

Now I leave

In search of a titled mourner

To help share my grief

In search of death

To mend this rift

For what more does life hold

For a father who has lost his home.