Soul

It starts

Like it always starts. 

Open hearts, 

Pushed down.

What was the moment

We fell

Down into the pits, 

Hard into the well?

Dirth rising above us.

Swallowing, teeth bared.

I can hear them shouting.

See those who cared,

Turned their backs

In silence.

Walk away like violence.

And things are always 

Escalating, always, always,

Always violating.

I can't escape that.

And I won't try to.

It's leaving people behind.

Can't carry them in my mind,

And I need you, 

I need you, 

I need you to

Understand.

You try to steal our rainbow,

Try to steal our light.

To lose us in the beating. 

A perpetual night.

I feel lost without them.

I feel lost in the loss.

So alone

In the loud,

Loud sound of stone,

Rising up where once 

The colourful people 

Danced.

Now a farewell dance.

Now a dance with dead.

Nothing will stop us,

But you want to try,

See if you can.

And I can't lie.

My tears flow to freely

For that, For them.

You come with the tide.

Like a flood,

I just need to ebb.

You're a lot.

But you're not enough.

To stop.

To stop.

To stop

The coming rage. 

The coming storm.

Are you done?