Life Story Poem by Matthew Edan Oliver Palma

in my lifetime there'd been countless times I wanted to just vanish...
and in those moments - especially when there was just only me - I'd simply talk myself out of it... or cry and weep or wail - silently.

soon came the songs and the melodies and their stories... and I felt I was not entirely alone... or at least I have rhymes that give me reason to carry on - I still felt the urge to vanish.. but I no longer cried and wept nor need to wail silently.

then along came you... and such moments became almost non-existent...
and I was truly happy - definitely happy that the crying and weeping and silent wailing was never even a past to remember.

but that is all in the past now... and I return to my vanishing... with just my songs and their melodies and the stories - and the crying and weeping and silent wailing.