The Hero Dies In The End

Talk Through The Tears

6-30-22

When was the last time
         you were on the ledge?
That edge?
Your body resisted every attempt
         to do it,
as if it wasn't supposed to be
         complicit. And
         not into it.
I've seen to many of my
         heroes die
without saying why
and I'm over here like
why not me?
         What's wrong inside me?
To live and have to explain
why my brain is overwhelmed
by heartaches and pain
I can't begin to ascertain.
Hell isn't mythical;
it's physical.
You wanted it but can't have it
and now you've become it.
I'm an outsider within myself
and I make no apologies
         for myself.
I don't talk; I bleed
tears for what I shouldn't be.