Poems From SAMNM

Under Love's Heavy Burden Do I Sink

The love I craved since; smothered me in fear

What once what I breathed in,

My livelihood

That lived in me

Now came down much like shambles, if such destroyed a world so cruelly

My world, our world

So bright with simple light and pure with effortless care

You flicked your tireless flame to the wisps of our blossoming garden filled

With black petunias and calla lilies

Where the ashes of infant flowers became

So tired my eyes of dark clouds of smoke

The remnants of our development as one

My mind, worn, stayed unfortunately so

To leave an albatross upon my heaving chest; your cupidity

Does it keep you?

The fickle sane I do possess, must you toy with it, eagerly so?

Mash my heart, break my strings

Under your burden I willingly sink

Low and woe, to reach the skies from down under

With you, I plead

My fragile being; your master puppetry emerged

Not as strong as i once was to think

Under your burden I know I must sink

Will it ever stop? Will I ever be free?

My life I devote at will

To wake, to sleep, to cry,

To sink.

~ S.S.