No substance truly annihilates forsaken pain
No chemical can cure the crash
Crash
Crash
Of a shattering heart
Breaking
On the floor of your chest
The bleeding,
The agony,
It cannot be avoided
Numbed, perhaps
But that is like
Walking bare foot
Over the shards of your own heart
Pretending the wounds aren’t there
Pretending
That the pieces
Of your once whole heart
Aren’t now festering inside of you
Like a malignant lump
No longer beating
But bleeding
Seeping through every crevice of your soul
Until you are utterly consumed
Neglected pain
Cannot be numbed by illegal substances
That promise of temporal joy
Temporal escape
Temporal release
Because as the substance leaves you
And your plane lands
And you feel yourself descending
Down a very deep hole
The pain will greet you there
That misery you left on stand by
On hold
Because life got in the way
But I know, love
This world is still cruel to the kindest of souls
And life doesn’t stop
Life doesn’t give way
Life doesn’t allow you to process this pain away – naturally
So we drink it away,
We smoke it away,
We love it away
But when your plane lands
And you feel yourself descending
Down a very deep hole
The pain will greet you there
Larger than before
So do not expect it to whisper
Do not expect it to meet you conveniently
Expect the room where your pain resides to be empty
Cleared of any redeeming quality
So when the chorus of your pain takes to the mic
Expect its volume, its power to be
Amplified