Glimmer

I wanted to love you

I tried so hard

Yet you’d rather put your heart

Towards that tainted liquid

It's engulfed you can’t you see?

So much possibility

Boiled down to a black sludge

Words can hold much power

Used to hope they would wear at you

Like the sea against a stone wall

However, it feels as if the words have backlashed

Against the beating bump in my chest

Wearing me down

I cannot keep paddling against the current

So I’ll swim back to shore

And build my light house by the sea

Where someday perhaps I’ll raise a family

Deep down I hope you’ll be there too

But I fear your ship has been sunk for years

The monsters embracing you

Still a shred of hope is there

That you’ll come swimming back to the beach

No longer bleary eyed and weak

If you did happen to

I would no longer have words to say

Years and years of words could be stacked into a book

My gut knows you all too well though

For even though that shred is there

You’re never coming back from the abyss that you drowned yourself in

Are you?