“BEFORE I LET GO”

Hear these words,

The very ones I utter.

Desperate in my attempts

To be saved

I’ve been in the dark for so long;

Where I sit in silence,

Where my thoughts consume me,

And nothing is left but this void

Is there any one out there?

Is there a single soul?

Can someone hear me?

I don’t want this anymore.

I don’t know what day it is;

Yet my hands bleed.

I’ve been trying to claw my way out

All to no avail.

There is no light,

As I sink deeper.

My cries echo

Till their resonance reflect.

Oh to glance upon the night sky;

Stars, bright, lustrous;

Clouds, ever graceful;

Moon, ever so still, peaceful.

I want to know solitude,

I want to know love,

I want to know peace

In this life and the next.

I’m so lost,

I’m so hurt,

I want to escape this prison,

This void, this darkness.

I need help;

It’s eating me up,

Ripping what’s left of my soul,

Reducing me to nothing

Time passes by,

And I’m left with the same thoughts;

Senile, coercive, malicious,

Tearful, hurt, in pain.

I want this to end,

I want to be free.

But now I see I’m alone,

I’ll never make it out alive.

This is my last attempt to be free,

If it’s heard, I’ll never know

Someone please save me;

Before I let go.