The Brink of Madness

The Brink of Madness

The earth rumbled

my foundation shook 

the windows of my soul

rattled and shattered

In the black hole

punched in my heart

I hold two broken ends

as hurricane winds

tear through the darkness

Barely hanging on

I can’t close the gap

to the mental chaos

threatening to rip the threads

from my aching hands

I’m on the abysmal brink

of madness

and I’m slipping

What joy in me

has scattered in the wind

All that I am

has been torn asunder

The joy that made me so happy

brutally stripped from my being

I’m on the abysmal brink

of madness

and I’m slipping

My heart lies

crushed and bleeding

Your thoughtless words

raped my soul

Your impersonal comments

left me for dead

I’m on the abysmal brink

of madness

and I’m slipping

I stare at the half finished canvases

feeling nothing but despair

I’m on the abysmal brink

of madness

and I’m falling in.