I can think of the good times, tender and sweet, warm like sun rays, comforting like a soft hand

They are keepers of my hope, when everything else erodes in gloom

Yet they make me see how small I am, or it's mere perspective?


I quietly watch parts of me dying, maybe the whole thing

You cheerfully came to save, ignoring wounds of your own

it's not helping, it's not helping

vicious poison oozing out

from a million pores of the decaying shell

burning your skin, eating your soul

a final slash on my throat


Hope be our saviour

Hope be our guide to hell