Knife's edge

My playful thoughts are wavering,
My unbroken smile trembles
My joyful eyes fill
With the tears from my shattered life

Desperate hope I try and grasp
As my mouth’s smile
Forms it’s last
My filled eyes overflow
Gentle drops career and go
Down my perfect cheeks they fall
The look upon my face
Explains it all

I clutch at a blade
A weapon
A knife
The perfect edge entices me
To surrender my tortured life

My finger I press down slowly
The fine edge breaking my skin
I watch the blood seep slowly
From my flesh within

The crimson liquid flows
Just as did my tears
I tremble as I raise the knife
To end all my useless years

I draw the blade across my neck
Across my wrists
Across my flesh
Released I feel,
Drenched in my blood
The pain I had
Has gone for good

I lay back down
My fingers still clasped
Around the knife
And I lay still, fast

No next breath I will draw
No smile will I give
No faint sentence will I utter
For I had lost the will to live