Muted words
The blank shades of my fractured mind
Cut and slash across my soul
We live to die and die to live
And hope is such a grind
It carries and withholds
Emboldens anticipation
And steals itself away
When reality gets ahold
Hope, it never ceases
To promise forever
A never-fate
That infinite reach
May it hold me by the throat
May it choke my tears that never come
May it bloat my heart with cotton
May it strike and not withdraw
Take it, take me
Leave me, steal me
To nothing and beyond
Where muted silence rests