It’s not your fault: It’s mine A story written in Haikus Anonymous Please take my split soul Of love suffered and love gone I see clearly now The chains that bind me Are bound in past lives of mine They define me not There is something new A friend, or perhaps, a love To keep cloaked from you The love of my mind Hides behind shattered, smashed bones Punctured are my lungs My love, my darling I stayed quiet all these months Silence only hurts To be a friend here Experience reigns supreme I feel better, dear
Excitement does rise At the idea of being Someone who’s wanted Woe to me a home A rest for others’ comfort For I am that home Take my clammy hand Drag me to the daring sea Morning dew sheds tears
For days the dull reigns Fire sea blazes in spurts I cannot feel it For once I wish me My bones ash, my blood aflame May I feel again It is not your fault I promise my affairs here Are not caused by you Lines dragged across sea Singed red with age like fine wine None can hear it scream To feel is twisted Defined by gods who use strings I have no scissors For once the dull gray Lifts me from the dark abyss I’m privy to breathe Time passes like sand Fickle and callous like so Who am I again? I’m allowed to live Life has granted me air here Floating above sea My bubble keeps still Fragile death is beckoned still Not by my still hands Me myself am free From many waves in the sea Endlessly, I plea.
My purpose is none If the ones I care for fall A shadow I shift Wish me slow and sweet A lullaby spun from string And feathers of gold The days of gold end Another sunset is gone Along with the sky Numbness runs deep here Filling the void of my soul It remains unchanged 46
