Setting sail in the seas of life one wave at a time
There has got to be more than this
All the famine; the shame
The booze, money, and fame
Every day is always the same
Playing the same old game
Reaching in the dark yet always seeming to miss
Another dollar and another soldier to maim
Another spoke in the wheel without a name
New monkeys every day to tame
Sentenced to slavery if that is whence you came
How to recover as we fall deeper into the abyss
Sealing the end with the Devil’s last kiss.
Glistening gates
Paradise awaits
Instead of God stands the Fates
A single eye
My answer a wicked gleam with a side of a smile so sly
I begin to fly
Soon I realize I’m falling
The blinding light fades to crimson as I hear a faint calling
Soon it becomes clear to be a mocking behind wails and bawling
A small jolt overtakes me as I halt
I see around me many other souls trapped with me inside an infinitely massive vault
A voice echoes within that I am at fault
But, my dear, there is a chance
A figure appears so striking with but a glance
Approaching with such grace as to dance
How could this be?
As the light fades and my eyes can see
The savior was not He
The key to my salvation was me.
Words so sickly sweet on my lips as my cravings pull me in
Not realizing I’ve been poisoned
The taste satisfies for but a moment
Soon I want to claw out my stomach and wrench out my heart
A wildfire chasing the trees
Consuming as it moves from one to the next
Until it reaches you where there is no oxygen for my flame to burn
No more love to feed
The orange mass licks and reaches as it flickers and fades
The hot kisses only singeing your skin
The one thing keeping it going pouring water on it
He thought water was what I needed
A thirst that needed to be quenched
He thought I was the trees, but I was the flame burning them
He the kryptonite to my being
Snuffing me out
Until there is nothing left but my aching soul
Nothing more than a heartbeat slowly dissipating
My ecstasy became my demise
For our love was like fire and water
The light in my eyes steamed away as we got closer
Evaporating with you into the skies
What ascended you
Descended me.
–Sevanna Simonette
