Lies

Look aloft at the heavens, the myriad stars
Shimmering behind these clouds of deathly
Sorrow as you lay prostrate, bound and bleeding
At torment’s whims, mercy but a twilight delusion.

See again the faces of all you have loved
As twisted they taunt, swearing always to be
At your side as they sip away at your anguish,
Promising worlds of redeeming acceptance.

All lies that they whisper as your blood flows alone
In the deafening stillness of an ever-beating
Heart that longs to be held…just once to be loved
Through the silent suffering, crying hours from the grave.

Fast and loose with the truth, lies spewing
Forth madly from twisted lips setting up to
Undermine the small stretch of firm earth standing
Intact beneath you, cast adrift without anchor.

For one moment speak truly of the role you will play
On this stage of destiny, where the only goal
Seems but annihilation in the face of the loss--
Self-shredder that shoves you from cliffs to the wind.

Pray once more for futile dreams through this madness…
A single voice, arms to wrap you in warmth against
Pain as it whispers through the coming shatter
That everything will be all right--live on to the end.

Lie to me from the shadows of ensuing demise
As breaking, fall through everlasting night.