This Hollow Ache - Alustrium

Alone

Within my thoughts

Reflecting

On all I’ve said and done

Never once

Have I felt satisfied

Never again

Will I even try

Anger, frustration

Emotions flare and seethe

Hands are shaking, filled with rage

Betrayal from loved ones

Real or fiction wound the same

These feelings and this thinking

Though unwarranted, undeserved

Lead to a place familiar

Back to my well of pain

As the initial shock of the pain fades away

These cuts, these punctures, these bruises

Dissolve to a hollow ache

And the cycle continues

The finger’s pointed but the blame remains

Digging deeper within me just causes the world itself to fade

Colors draining

My eyes go cold and gray

As I withdraw within

The ground beneath me starts to sink

As I am moving forward

Led deep into the garden

Led to a place familiar

Back to my well of pain

I know this place and why I’m here

All too well, guilt and shame

The center of the issues at hand

The center and the source of my hollow ache

And self pity, it beckons

Despite all I do it won’t shake away

The more that I rationalize these thoughts the more they seem to inflame

And the cycle continues

The finger’s pointed but the blame remains

Digging deeper within me just causes the world itself to fade

The cycle of dwelling

It repeats, it replays

My hatred of my own mind

Upcycles and unravels

Self hatred and self loathing

Have become second nature

I’m learning to accept now

That this is good for no one

Break wide open

Resolve to rid those who’ve been inflicted with me

Of this plague out of shame

And self pity, it beckons

Despite all I do it won’t shake away

The more that I rationalize these thoughts the more they seem to inflame

And the cycle continues

The finger’s pointed but the blame remains

Digging deeper within me just causes the world itself to fade

And the world opened up

And I gazed into blackness

And I looked all around me

And saw nothing but gray

I looked into myself

And found I matched the darkness

With not another thought

I dove into my well of pain