The cathedral across the way
strikes its funeral bells
and a muffled silence ring
over snow-covered roofs
as I decide I will not die today
I was resting in the shadows
mournful and afraid
summoned to the stake
forced by my own hand
by shame and guilt and pain
Now I’m picking up the pieces
of someone that used to be
careless and self-confident
a stranger to me now yet
a man I still wish to meet
I’m not quite back from broken
still wish I’m swallowed by the dirt
but I am whole enough
to see where I am going, and
I know these bells are not for me
- Afton Light, 2021
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