Cleansing is filthy work

To make pure the stained

When darkness creeps into fibers of white thread, swearing to never be rid of its place

Seeping into the cracks and crevasses

Broken seams, torn by time and tales

When ripped open that clean soul

Tossed to filth, drug through mud

Black in heart, pieces lost,

Never to be whole again

What terrible task to cleanse

What painful thought

To beco...

Smooth and shimmering,

Sea and sun shining to blind

Far more blinding, the glow of gold

Oh to lose the eyes of heart

Blind to greed, blind to want, blind to worry

To see with smell of salt and red of sun behind blind eyes

To taste what riches bless those hands

Soft glint of blood, a drop of life

Far out weights the weight of wealth

What light to guide, what path those feet would trod

Light of sun ...

You’re heavy.

Something I’d never say to you.

I carry you as an obligation, a nessesity, a privilege.

Something I never wanted to take upon my shoulder,

But something I would never choose to shrug off.

I hate to have only you,

But wish you’d never leave me.

If the day were to ever come,

Should the fate I dread be true,

I would sigh in peace,

Be light of foot and calm of mind,

But I’m sure i...