Tell me why my heart beats slower

When I step out for a jog

Why my skin starts to shiver

When I’m basked in the morning sun

I try to keep my eyes open

And enjoy this brand new day

But with every waking hour

I feel my life energy seeping away

Out of my bones

Out of my flesh

Out of my soul and mind

Out of my fingers

And out of my toes

Out of my center—my core

This feeling I have cannot be explained

Because why do I feel dead when I live each day

I’m a shell for certain

A dead soul in this cursed body

And one day I fall

And fall

And fall

Into an abyss that knows no light

No salvation

For a lost cause like me

I lay mangled and still

My entire being withering in pain

With nothing else to do

But wait

And wait

And wait

For someone greater

Someone stronger

Someone much aliver

To take my dying hands and say

“You’re going to get through these times

You and I together”