A Hole

     there is a hole
    wherein all pleas fall
   a place to throw
  these away

   all words spoken
    unspoken loneliness
     lonely silence

      there is a hole
     wherein they live
    dug from anxieties
   and_nervous habit

    a_broken mind
     telling_itself it's_alright
      it's alright

       there is_a hole
      wherein_they bury
     all hopeful promises
    and promising circumstance

   you reach out to find
   the ruler is most definitely unkind

    a crooked smile
     telling itself_it's just fine
      it's just fine

       never enough ways to say
       your_heart aches for more

      a blind eye
     telling_itself it's not_gone
    it's_gone

     there is a hole
      wherein love hides
       the painful distance
        between faith and form

       echoing memories_of happy times
      rippling reminisces_on worn-out_lines
     lost paths in red sands

      no home for_your rest
      walk on and on in that far-away forest

     How well shadows hide until out goes the light.

      thirstier_and_thirstier you_know
       the dryness will do nothing_but grow

      Improvement seems to be a fleeting lie told by reality.

       a light to lead you to escape
        for_what chances do you take

         fading voices_in the dark horizon
        the night_draws dimmer
       as the moon betrays it

        there is_a hole
         wherein_hope climbs
          a thousand miles
           of emptiness…

“You kept me close, for I was all you had,
Your one and only begotten son;
Put me up on the cross in your name,
My identity so blurred with yours.

“To chain me down, you lied and lied,
You told me not to trust anyone else;
How could I cry for help if I had no words,
No way to flee within this heartfelt maze.

“You taught me everything I know,
Of love, the innermost workings of myself;
So it's no wonder I no longer can believe,
With the world so poisoned from inside.”

…there is a hole.