I have no idea where it comes from, but sometimes I have a hankering to explore my dark side.  Usually it's when I have overly empathized with someone's pain, which is what happened today as I was browsing around other bloggers at thought.com. I found myself feeling as if I was in their shoes and this is what came tumbling out of my mind.

held hostage


i am powerless to make life worth living whilst you keep taking and i keep giving

your pain has gripped my heart with tendrils that burrow into my psyche leaving me raped and void

why must you hold me hostage with your cry for love even when i am empty and have no more love to offer

words cannot express the profoundness of my misery as i feel myself losing at the game of savior

the pain of living is too profuse to allow myself to linger any longer in your perpetual shadow of death

i am intimidated by the life sustaining power you have assigned to me, so die already if you must - and set me free