The Ending

[Trenton Vinh]

I wrote this today sort of off the top of my head after having a pretty depressing day. I don't know if it really means anything but the words came together more fluidly than usual. I just feel it lacks a specific theme or subject. Its introspective I suppose so maybe I'm the subject and the target.




My life feels like its coming apart,
Here without you and I'm back at the start.
Can't get where I'm going when I've yet to depart,
Salt my wounds to appease all the world's bleeding hearts.

Here we stand, the chasm dividing,
Look past the surface to the currents underlying.
You let go of my hand, given up on trying.
And now I will fall, no wings to keep my flying.

All the promises I left unbroken,
All the words forever unspoken,

And here we are, spinning in the dark,
Entangled, I'm strangled,
Snuff out the spark.

This is where I die,
caught up in the lie,
the last noise I will voice is the words goodbye.

Solid without substance as a song without tone.
Followed by judgements, I will walk alone.
A shadow, a phantom, a ghost in the smoke,
Wash me away with a single stroke.

My words they are nothing, for my life is lie.
Weighed down with what's coming, but I stand and defy.