Lost (challange)

Why can’t you see don’t matter to me
You only exist in shadowy dreams
You're mine forever I won’t set you free
I’ll never listen to your angry screams

I can hear echoes
Reaching for my shattered soul
The beat of your heart

You begged for my heart like an arrogant knave 
Love was a contest and you played to win
Your empty promise became my soul’s grave
Killing my mind you must pay for your sin

Forgiveness whispers
And we feel its influence
Louder than pain shouts

I’ve locked you up in a shrouded graveyard
You beg me for mercy but I demand more
I slash your hope with a bloodthirsty shard
Tie your spirit to my cold callous core

Even in darkness
If you look through honest eyes
Stars twinkle to life

My frozen soul stands empty and barren
Vows resonate, in chambers deserted
Still here I stand rejected by charon
Demons arrive and love is perverted

In a winter storm
If you gather warmth to you
Icicles will melt

Hate consumes me greedily devouring
The temple you built with amorous lines
The heaven we shared is swiftly souring
My desiccated faith in god declines

Even from deep despair
Angels can lift tortured minds
Saving us from sin

From smoldering remains the truth emerges
The hell I’m living in is in my mind
A small sign reads (placed where the road diverges)
“Abandon ye all hope; there’s none to find”

Fire sanctifies
Transgressions against nature
Purity endures

You lie there enthralled upon my altar
I’m in control of all you say and do
I engrave your soul and never falter
Eternally connecting me and you

The sound of your breath
Upon my battered psyche
Calms my savage rage

Too late I realize what hate has wrought
I sold my soul for you between my thighs
We struggle, but we can not break the knot
We’re lost and even god can’t hear our cries.

Even in silence
God bestows Absolution
Love breaches hell’s gate

Patricia Gibson-Little