While They Lay Sleeping

You can stare into the eyes of certain death forever
Daydream that within your glare the light to life can be found
No matter how intense the gaze displayed
Hope can not burn through the chemical shield of an ailing soul

Poisonous are the meals consumed along the path to suicide
Each a sedation to the realization that only death lies ahead
Truth can touch a heart that bleeds ingested toxins
Though it falls upon skin too numb to allow its belief

Continuously kiss the forehead of a blacked out mind
Dream loves potion can somehow become the juice
That roams their veins to suppress the hopelessness
And tame the raging seas of venom that resides within

Believe the word forever when it slips through lips
Too medicated to comprehend its meaning
As their possible endeavor towards forever
Is too short a passage to ever fulfill its definition

No grasp can hold the hand of a tortured mind
Tight enough to vanquish the hunger for their truest adoration
Inhaled sin holds a beauty to which no human love can compare
As years blur into one never ending day of vacant survival

Recite a final parting prayer
Close your eyes and end your stare
To try to force a sight of light
Is to live within their darkness

-- Audrey Michelle
http://www.myspace.com/audreyliles