Eremite's Rest - King Goat

Forever is not so far away

Endeavour is masking all of my failures

I may never work out what I am missing

Drained of colour I sit and stare but, still, can’t see

Flitting wings, how I have waited for you

Patiently.

When will you bring me solace?

Quietly, I reach my hand out for you

Settling, I close my fist and you are gone

Suddenly, I am all too aware

Of the prison I’ve built for myself

Doors locked, windows blocked

Lights out, no power

No more.

It’s over

I lie back on the floor

Sigh and give up

Aching limbs weighed down

Silent shock gripping

Catatonic shiver

My body purges itself of my soul

Peering, leering, looming nothing

Take me, kill me, something, anything

For one final chance at life, I’d do most anything

Folly of a broken man who gave up everything to soon

I remember

Companionship

That I surrendered

To selfishness

My hatred of the world

Proved to be too much

My final embers

Died with the moth

Like him, I’m ending

In silence, all alone