Lamentation for Hope.

Lamentation for Hope.

I do not want to feel this intense.
I do not want to love this strong.
I do not want to care this much.

I want to be like others…
Having only superficial feelings…

I want to wrap this river up and put her back into an iron ball.

I want to curl up in bed,
never to get up again.
I want to live my days in drunken haze,
or in a cracked stupor.

I want a potted giggle
and a leaved rage.
I want nothing real anymore.
All illusion of who I am
and what I want.

I do not want it all anymore.
No more striving,
no more giving.
No more hoping.
No more accepting morsels at the door.

I want to give up on living
and feeling and loving.
I want to succumb and become just
another one of the living dead.

I want to sit on a bench in a park
– all tatters and dirt,
and I do not want to care.

I’ll say hallelujah and amen
at the right places and
sing whatever chorus
for a crust of bread.
I’ll offer my body for a warm bed.

I’ll smile and declare God is good,
when I get on the blue train.
I’ll take the trip to nowhere…
as long as I do not feel this much , care this deep and love so deep.

Hope has crashed…

 
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The end of suffering - To be a blessing to myself!