Page 55 of All In

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I can pretend I’m not real

The shore is growing distant

The planks beneath me break

I sink into the deepest dark

And beg the stars to take

Me, into their infinite silence

Where it is quiet upon quiet

In your still glass orbs

Where no one can hear me cry

(chorus)

The lighthouse

At the edge of my world

Has gone dark,

I break myself on the rocky shores

Sink beneath the waves

Drowned in the downpour

Of my own tears

An unending rain

Falling and filling an ocean

Of unbreathable pain

Your light went out forever

I could close my eyes

The black is black is black

Like ashes against a night sky

A darkened lighthouse

At the edge of the world

Is all that’s left

Of this drowning girl

PART II

“You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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