Leave Me

Let me fall; 

Let me go quickly --

Leave it all,

And take from me everything that I have left.

Take my pain; 

Rip it right from me --

Leave the stain, 

So I remember life before I was bereft.

I want to slumber, and never awaken;

This life is a torment I can take no more.

Leave me with it, then.

You've done all that you can.

Just leave me alone.

Darkness shrouds; 

Wrapped in its shadows --

Thunderclouds,

Bloated with anger and crushing disdain.

Lock this room; 

Seal up the windows --

Trap the gloom; 

Let my poor anguish cause none of you pain.

I want to slumber, and never awaken;

This life is a torment I can take no more.

None should ever live this way,

Silently screaming in the blackness,

Praying for this torture to cease.

Leave me with it, then.

You've done all that you can.

Just leave me alone.

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- © Jackson Cambridge, 2015.