Perish

Look at me now
I decayed long ago
Yet I am tethered
to this vessel

Mist inhabits
my hollow skull
And these old bones
call to the earth

A plea to death:
Reclaim me, my love
For I weary
Of wandering

These lungs, they ache
Sadness fills them
I choke on venom
And lie in grief

I held my dreams
so tightly, yet
they only went
whispering away

Grant me a wish
That I might follow
In smokefilled footsteps
To the ending