Flames to Ashes

One more drink to feel less hollow, another quick fix to drown my sorrow.

Escape these thoughts invading my mind, anything to fuel the flame lost with time.

Beaten, defeated, broken and bruised, I am chained to the floor in a desolate room.

So long I’ve been fighting, scratching and clawing, now nothing is left to stop me from crying.

I put away the next to feel it burn, maybe this one will stop the hurt.

I want to feel but the pain is deafening, so I swallow the next so I can stop listening.

My soul burned out and has turned to ashes, I’m scattered on the floor until this pain passes.

Outside you see life when inside I am dying, It’s all I have left there is no more trying.

The fire burned on despite nature’s best efforts, now nothing is left but few fading embers.

The ashes have dispersed the wind blew them away, no phoenix will emerge what’s left will soon decay.

The world is dark when it should be light, and I am disappearing into the night.