Friday, October 11, 2019

Memory Abyss

Memories are my prison cage
Iron bars prevent my escape
The things I did or didn't do
Led me here, that is the truth
Whether I go on or never start
My flesh shows the deep scars
I wake at night shaking
I dream the worst things
My memories do not pass
No hope behind the veil
Into the abyss I've been cast

“Only pious people believe that hell is in a world beyond.”
Ernst Wiechert