Bitter & Sweet

I couldn’t stop them
The tears
They fell
They flowed
They stung as they bathed my soul in bitter and sweet
My broken heart lay at my feet
Still beating
My mind still screaming
The stench of death lifting from my skin like a ghost
Ashes from a thousand trays in my throat
The deepest hollow in my chest
I watched him go like all the rest
Which blackness is this that covers me like a cloak?
Follows me like a thief in the night
Steals my joy before day light
Which curse is this that won’t let go?
Always bringing me back to what I know
Where my spirit sits in a pile of shit
Where heaven meets hell
And becomes just like it
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