Box

Staring at the sky

Can only bring

Peace of mind

For so long

Sick of looking

At the pale white walls

And remembering

All the pictures

Tucked them away

In a box tied

With a soft string

Coated in tears

---

The box lies now

Guarded by me

Or the essence

Of who I was for you

He will always

Be guarding it

The remnant

Of our happiness

---

I push on in my world

Grabbing at the strands

Of harmony and peace

That float like angels

Through the night

Elusive feelings I reach for

But always miss

And as I regress

Further into this man

That I don’t want to be

I’ll lose your image

I’ll become the things

I promised to resist

And taste the fruit

I promised to scorn

Without you I will wither

Under the sun of my sins

And be crushed beneath

The weight of the world I carry

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But maybe someday

Far away from now

I will crawl from my prison

And meet me again

And where age has withered

The body I inhabit,

The guardian will be whole

Protected by his love

And I will fade to dust

For the body was left empty

And he will cut the twine

And free the beauty

That was once us

For I was empty

In the side of me you see

But locked away there always was

The love I promised you.