Waiting.....

Waiting.....

Time has stomped by,

each beat rumbling past,

a deafening slam against my forehead.

Yet the one sound

I wish to hear

never comes,

fading away,

fading

until

it's

AND THEN IT COMES SCREAMING
BACK INTO MY CONSCIOUS,

A FREIGHT TRAIN,

RUNNING OVER MY THOUGHTS,

CRUSHING ALL OTHER CONTEMPLATIONS

RESIDING IN MY HEAD,

KICKING THEM OUT

WITH A FERAL SHOUT

I'm left with a feeling of confusion,

rejection,

loneliness.

I open up to you,

yet all I find

are excuses

and empty words.

I don't know how much longer

I can play the part of your puppet,

for my strings have grown taut,

threatening to strangle me.

My care for you is beyond compare,

as I hope you can see,

but I need to know

that there's someone on the other end

of this emotional rope

and that you haven't just

tied it to a tree

to tend to later.