Release Me

Sun-jewelled bespeckled droplets dance on mirrored light

Dappled shafts of rainbow-arced symmetries of life

Nested on the moss-covered cliff tops of wayward walks

Wheeling Petrels storm through my mind, squawking, razor-billed

Piercing, knife-edged pain sears into my soul melting my mind

Threatening to swipe the earth from beneath me, paralyzing

The mortality that I feel endlessly shimmering in the candlelit

Focus of my mind edging closer to the drop; plummeting

Blindly, the tattooed weal on my heart, the rhythm of life

Beating like a drum, hum-drumming on my brain, stop

Let me breathe, take my hand, lead me away from the abyss

That I have let you draw me into, vortexed into obscurity

Baying for blood, not content until you suck my gizzards out

Sheep’s eyes pecked clean, the socket wide and gaping

Like the hole in my heart that you ripped apart with your smile

Evil in its intention washing over me, draining my life away

Sucking the world away from me as you drawl and salivate

At my misfortune as you mould me into putty, pliable and soft

In your expert grasp, choking me. Please, let me free

And like a butterfly, let me flutter into the breeze and fly away

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