Free me from the shackles that contain my soul,

Let me go to a place....

Where there is no pain.

Where there is no betrayal.

Where there is no emptiness.

Where there are no lies.

Let my body turn ethereal,

Let me fly with the unknown,

Let me behold only beauty and peace.

Let the clouds mask the duplicity called life from my soul.

I welcome death into my home,

I have sent out an engraved invitation,

Now I am awaiting death’s reply.

I am praying that death will afford me the peace,

That I cannot find in life.

I am praying that death will send me to an oblivion,

Where this pain cannot reach.

There is nothing left here but a shattered husk,

In to many pieces to ever put back together again.

I voice these false words..."I will survive."

But secretly I pray to be released from this earth.

Secretly I pray for peace everlasting.

-Margi C.

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