If You Ever Forget The Pain

 The poetry is here if you ever forget the pain

Covered in cobwebs and decaying memories

A severed still beating heart 

Beckoning in the distance

For someone or nothing

I see the shallows run deep

And the abyss calls you like an old friend

These words can touch you like I no longer can

When it rains and there is a full moon

I resurrect the dead in a dream of love

But a ghost of residual energy is all that remains

In your bed staring at the ceiling

When the tears will not come

I write what I cannot say

You can always cling to shadows and darkness

To embrace the pain that rules your world

Poisoned poetry is better than silence

Or so I have heard

Words can bleed when all hope has gone dry

Cruelty comes quick like a lover's moan

An orgasmic sigh

In the throes of ecstasy

From a corpse in a box

Broken things remain in the darkness

Buried six feet under yesterday

As the past swallows what could not be

Waiting in solitude for a love gone away

Never to return

But in fractured poetry

After

Goodbye.