Last Chance

Last breath of bondage

drawn from vivid pain

and hellish black eternity.

Last gulp of demon fluid

to tear a life

asunder

in vicious, insidious

attack. 

Last time to paint the world

with depression and scorn,

to feel nothing

but

despair

and

vile isolation. Last attempt to drown emotions,

pull black blinds

across fears,

disguise

reality. 

Last day to live

in blinkered self-deception –

the bitter illusion

of control. 

One heart broken, one

mind frozen, one

blink nearer, one

hand reaching

                               out… It takes that

to step into the light.

 

© Nicky Clifford 2016