Stripped

You touched my soul
brought to life
all that hide so deep inside.
Pushed in,
twisted, shattered dreams.
Provoked from me dark memories.
Earned a place within this soul,
a golden thrown...
untouched... by the world.
You shone so bright,
My knight, you would be.
You saved me from the depths of me.
Soaring, living, loving pure.
A lifetime I swore,
I'd forever be yours.
Now here I lay,
begging for sleep...
longing for dreams to dream.
Searching for happiness, waiting for peace.
Wanting to die... or wake up and scream!
You've torn me down,
taken my soul.
Nothing I feel,
I have no control!
Searching so deep for a tear to shed.
Wishing to remember,
what it felt like to be sad.
Instead I stay stripped...
Stripped of reality,
Stripped of hopes
Stripped of love, of tears,
of emotion...
A mask I must wear now
to cover this void,
to hide this gateway...
to the endless sea,
that fills me inside.
No more storms, no more stones,
not a ripple or wave to move the water...
For you have stripped this soul bare,
and left only,
the Dead Sea, the empty me.

@s.irfanaleem 12-30-2013