Fortress

Within these walls there is an empty vessel.
Nowhere does it say in this place that light is a friend.
Scattered are the remains of what was, what is, and what never will be.
There is only darkness within me.
Left to my own devices I have become blind,
Blind to all and everything around me.
From within comes a soft beating.
It will stop soon, of this I am sure.
Love has left here.
It has bore a tunnel straight through my heart and out of my body.
I don't ask any questions.
Who am I to beg.
What was left are the ruins of the past.
Nothing to savage, nothing to claim.
Here I shall lay in malignant stupor.
Forever counting shadows which dance around me; 
Taunting me with their presence.
I know it is all for not.
I know that here the light exists solely as a reminder
of what I will never have.
Peace, tranquility, hope, and love... 

©2014