Love letter to the Sandman by jadedangel322, literature
Literature
Love letter to the Sandman
Night after night I am taunted by your presence.
Why do you elude me?
Why do I run from you?
My inability to be part of you is killing me.
Taking my waking hours and tainting them.
Why must I fear your grasp?
My chest tightens, stomach clenching and mind screaming when I notice your grip upon me during the darkest hours.
Why can't I hold you?
Why won't I let you cradle me in your arms?
Why doesn't my bravery hold up to you?
As I lay here, I close my eyes.
I know you are there and I yearn for you to take me.
Yet my fear rules me.
So until the sun comes over the horizon, I will do all I can to stay away....
To stay awak
My heart....
Broken so many times that not all the pieces seem to fit any longer.
No longer able to be broken further...for it was never fully reassembled.
So many come to partake in the feast of my most precious commodity....my love...my heart. They take their fill and leave me writhing in pain and anguish for the part of me that I have lost.
Some stay to continue on as the parasites that they are, sucking the very life from me, until I can take no more.
Self-preservation taking over, I tear them from me...like a tick from my flesh.
The head remains under my skin...unable to be removed....reddening...infecting my soul. Others try to
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