Wormhole

Wormhole             10/27/2016

It all started

With a lie

A deep and vile deception

Crawling in

The tiniest of cracks.

Forced in

At the weakest of moments

Foisted upon the resentful

And grossly overburdened.

Eating on fear

And feasting

Upon exhaustion

Persistently testing

For weaknesses with promises

And lies.

Wedging against every fault

And exploiting all favorable angles

Like an opportunistic disease

Spreading through the blood. 

Almost unnoticed

Safe, harmless,

Easy and effortless

The greatest of tragedies

Happen by degrees.

Sucked in

And lost

Before we even knew

The parasite embedded

And sapping our strength.

By the time

You see it

It is already too late

Burrowed too deep

To remove

The fatally infected heart.

Lost to time

Over nothing at all

The emotional ruins

Of the empty

And the fake. 

They have murdered many

And it nearly killed me

Taking everything

And leaving nothing. 

The dead hand holds the truth

And all hands work to kill

Removing every obstacle

Brazen and remorseless.

Playing on a loop

Threaded through time

The failure of man

Falling though the floor

And cursed from the start.

Pride traps us all

And we flail at the wind

Unable to question

Speak, climb, or swim.