| Home: Poetry: Matthew J. Dunham: I and my Despair |
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my heart is sick, these chains i bear weigh heavy on my soul. i thought i could control the beast, but now i pay the toll. a war goes on inside of me, each side, they take thier stand. i need someone to comfort me, someone to take my hand. the woman that i love, well she does not love me. the things i'm dreaming of, i can't touch but i can see. sometimes i think that someone placed a curse upon my life. forever doomed to walk alone, no one to share my strife. i fall asleep at night and dream a dream of love so true. then in the dawn i wake alone and bid that love adieu. but sometimes when i fall asleep, my dreams they frighten me. bitter shades from days long past come back to torment me. relationships i've had and lost, disintegrate like sand. people that i knew and loved, they slipped through shaky hands. i'm tired, i am weak, i am sick with grief and pain. i feel i've lost my mind, sometimes i can't recall my name. now i slumber, see my lie, the world inside at peace. don't wake me please, just leave me hear, between these tear stained sheets... |
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