I've been feeling exactly the same way of late ... I keep "getting involved" in various things and thinking "gee, what was I upset about?" and then WHAM! the ugly reality of our situation floods back in. No waking up from this nightmare ... no way to fucking escape.
THIS HELL, THIS DARKER PLACE
too many destructions
focused here
we are in cross hairs
of too many blasts
everything we care for
is threatened here
everything we know
is torn out of our grasp
we stare at the abyss
of loss and the unknown
a yawning chasm
of fear and anguish
which promises decay
and unseen fruits of failure
the bitter harvest
of all these years of pain
a darker substance
rises within
a stronger poison
taints the soul
as this presents
as but the edge
of deeper falling
lower states
we have no faith
that drastic change
will bring less evil
or any good
we more believe
that what we lose
will never be replaced
and always cause us ache
how much more loss
how much more stress
how much more pain
can be sustained?
how long until
the balance sheet
runs far too red
and we must echo it with wrists?
- Brendan Tripp
10/01/2001
Copyright © 2001 by Brendan Tripp
