Under the Shadow of Grief

Weight of the earth in thick rock and sorrow

Wish for release from regretful tomorrow

Burden the past as it blisters the brain

Force back the torment and choke on the pain

Weeks roll in seconds through forgotten time

Meaningless chatter within purposeless rhyme

Drifting in masses but walking with ghosts

Swimming the oceans but drowning at coasts

Clouded in judgements whilst clear in denials

Begging for inches then giving up miles

Facing blank walls when staring through spaces

Insincere pity from false smiling faces

Absence of feeling and sick of existence

Happiness muted through tortured persistence

Eyes full of rivers with hearts full of frost

And a world full of strangers in a paradise lost

Copyright © 2011 by Simon Austin