Figure in white

By Luke Campbell

Figure in white I’ve done all I could.

Cut the ropes that pulled me above the

Surface and let me sink with my chains

That keep me where I stand and encased in stone

Now the crows wont let me hide and I don’t

Want to shine, deep in void’s shallow shores.

So the sun took me away

To all and everything fallible

                                                                             

In my wake away from the pink clouds

Blinded and buried underneath artificial light

And rotting outside a callous mind

My nerves tightened to a fastened world

Figure in white draw me a new change

Just something to dry out the rain

Now time sent me into the shadowed woods

Without a map, and eyes to see the stars

Now the snakes are pulling me down

Closer and closer,

Until I dropped and drowned

I’m riding a river to the light of everything,

To the dark of nothing when the sun is gone

The water washed my bones awake

To now decay with a bed of flowers

Until the end of hours.