Sunday, March 29, 2020

the dark night of the soul

some deaths
are slow, self inflicted.

by drug
or lack of food,

starvation of the heart,
the body
not whole.

I've seen both.
I've witnessed the worst
of a person,

wasting away,
rocking in a ball on
the cold

floor. skin
and bones.

crying like a child,
wanting to be

taken home. there is nothing
one can do.

no pill, no magic
wand,

no psychiatrist with
a book
full answers, there are
none.

you can only let them go
or hold them

as they disappear
between your arms,

into
the night.

the dark night of their soul.

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