Alive With Guilt

With betrayal life made me a prisoner
And threw me behind the bars of my own mind
Trapped in walls of remorse I smothered
Wondering if it is dark or am I just blind

How can I survive when life told me not to?
How can I breathe when guilt is my breath?
How can I smile if my grin is not to be true?
How can I live if it's written on my heart death?

I did not leave faith; it's faith that left me
To subsist as a sinner, to die as guilty
I blamed the truth that did not set me free
But wedged me in an agonizing reality

In a dark corner I counted the nights
Wondering if the moon can watch my pain
Knowing that to live in guilt I'd rather die
I was scared not to see the sun again

Am I forgiven? ...never
Culpable until the day I die
Am I punished? ...forever
In guilt I will always recline





Poetry by mirella
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Written on 2005-08-10 at 21:47

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NamFoNos
wow... i read this outloud to myself at 5 a.m. here... this has just blown me away!
2005-08-11


chasingtheday The PoetBay support member heart!
the mind and the heart can hurt us as surely as a knife or gun a good dark poem here.
2005-08-10