My Sin

My Sin

I exist solely in my mind,
my senses search the darkened void.
I seek but nothing can I find.
Is this some cosmic schadenfreude?

Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune

Shattered memories coalesce
revealing pieces of my past.
They fester like some dank abscess
until the truth is clear, at last.

I float above a grave. A stone
lies near with nothing but a name.
No gathering, no mourner’s drone.
Only silence shares my shame.

No longer bound, this strange rebirth
is short-lived as I’m pulled within
the coffin as each clump of earth
is scattered o’er my wooden skin.

No sound, no smell, no touch, no sight.
I exist solely in my mind
trapped in an eternal night.
I seek but nothing can I find.

Forever am I locked within
to contemplate my life… my sin.

An entry for the August round of "The Taboo Words Contest ~ On Hiatus" 
Prompt: Solitude
Forbidden Words: Solitude, Lonely, Alone, Separate, Isolated, Apart, or any derivatives
Line Limit: 40
Line Count: 22