Is It Time to Let Go?

Coated with war paint ridiculed with hair spray

Stringing breath to breath with sheer torture and pain

Smoldering with each step and constant medications

Yet hiding the grisly truth of my weak existence

Bleeding, smothering, terrifying my loved ones with smiles

Striving of survival well palpable in my tired and weak eyes

Perversity of denial written on x-rays and prescriptions

Hidden in reticence I grieve, fear of leaving overwhelmed

Is it time for me to plan a graceful departure from what I’ve known?

Or should I collect and glue the pieces of life lying there weakly sprawled?

I ask of the unheeding breeze smitten with regret where should my soul go?

Overrated hypocrisy in words I seek not anymore but I am not yet ready to let go…

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