When Memories Crucify Me
Alone, I sit and weep So often, I've lost the count With stagnant pain as they seep Mercilessly into my thoughts The wretched memories and grief I can't surmount. So many summers have come and gone Still, I burn in my memories As they keep speaking to me in a hateful tone And the painful remembrance kills me. Years has it been. Is this an eternal disease? Memories are all that I have with me Yet they're all that I want to lose The agonizing images will never leave me be At destiny's mercy, I am forever chained To the innumerable memories and now, on me they deluge. For what can I do at all When my key to freedom is what locks me? I scream, I writhe and I fall. On this endless cycle moves my life Knowing too well I am nowhere close to liberty. I've been waiting for an absolution I deserve an escape from my memories. To smile freely for once is my resolution. For then a new life will spring The pain will subside and my heart will find peac...