Hope - Grief

The fractures lay within me, Coarsing their way into my veins, My despair stains like black honey, A steady slow leak of pain. Tear out my mind, Suffocation, suffocating, The relief of this release, After constant constraint. A light of hope flickers, It's flame grows and recedes, Whether I continue on, or lay my weary bones to sleep. Hope lifts my heavy heart, Sorrow drags me back down, I am left suspended here, All alone with a black hound. I don't know if I will see, A world with a place for me, A soul carrying the weight, Of both hope and grief.