A Fading Presence

The world is leading us down a dark path
that is lit with our hearts and souls
and nothing can escape this destitution,
but the given life that revolves around our hearts.
I feel so much, yet my love is not there.
It never was nor ever shall be.
My love is for the dead, as I see the dead in my eyes,
and my hands are the passion that lay sunken inside my chest.
Never will I find what I’ve been looking for
in love or in peace,
for, peace does not exist.
Only anger and twisted emotions,
which tie me up to my earthen grave,
and this light that never was
fades into the darkness behind my mind
and learns to hate as I rediscover what life truly is;
love means nothing to me anymore--we are all numb and lost.
Forever I will be damned, an untwisted creature
who’s forever lost in this unconscious state.

-Brian Grisham, 2001