Falling Poem by Peter Madden

Falling...
falling into darkness...
flames surround me...consume me....
the pain that will never heal..
filling my mind destroying my thoughts...
my soul screams into the unforgiving sky...
i cry but my tears are of fire...
burning my face searing my flesh...
yet i cannot stop them..



i fall..



how long have i fallen? ...
there is no reference of time...
i try to think to remember...
but the pain cuts through my reason...
my scream deafens me...
the heat of the flames overwelms me...
the fire in my eyes blinds me...



and still i fall...



i want the pain to end...
the flames to begone...
an end to my suffering..
i can feel my skin blacken and stiffen..
my flesh go hard and crack..
the heat seaping into my bones...
i am powerless to stop the confligration devouring me...



down, down i fall....



how did this come to be...
what has happened to me? ...
i try to think, to recall...
as the flames eat at my flesh...
who am i? ...




through blurred burning eyes i see something before me...
rushing towards me...
closer and closer it comes...
forboding fills my heart..
driving out the thoughts and questions...
i brace my flame consumed form...
as i reach my falls end and meet the world below...



i am fallen....



the flames die...
the tears stop...
i am no longer burning...
i am no longer falling...
the heat no longer is within me..
i am alone and cold to my soul...
i remeber now who i am...




i am the fallen....