Breathe open and full
and fill the lungs
and let out your heart
here among
the friends of fools
and the wise
stripped of love
and paradise
Drink deep the water
of all your yearning
as your soul searches
learning
Grasp the end
of the arrow driven
to your heart
in mercy given
and drive it deeper
until you regain
the feeling of
a numbed-up pain
Then see how
your heart bleeds
on the floor
of all your needs
You are not well
you cannot deny
find yourself
you have to try
One last bracer
and then to break
the shaft within
where it aches
Come to the altar
Come to the tears
Release all the hell
you've held all these years
YOU ARE READING
The Nautilus
PoesíaWe are so dark in the heart of this night and it never stops and it never starts. I find myself a mystery and I see nothing that surrounds me that I endeavor to know more than the universe inside myself. Michael J Tyger, poet and novelist...
