Ashes To Ashes Poem by Ted Sheridan

My body
defeated by the hardship
my mind weakened by insanity
my soul
eaten out with madness
myself a death wish
I was pushed beyond the sunset
into bleak darkness
unafraid of the cold dark flames
which engulf my being with delight
Life had severed me in half
separating the man from his soul
It had cremated my dreams
into ashes of false hope
and scattered their dust upon my shadow
Despite any reality I might have known
I was tortured constantly by the light
wishing not to enter God's love
always willing to place myself
in some else's grave
Burying all my thoughts beneath the
shelter of another corpse
Hoping a painful death would mistake me
for a wandering soul
and issue the final blow to me
with some respect
For respect I'd never known
Caring not about the stench I lie in
Life had smelled of it before and
my nose was useless upon my face
as I open a borrowed coffin's door
Climbing into death
past the dark side
beyond the moons of time
I go without opposition
Without a fight
Lying down within the fatal brew
Succumbing to the silence
of a broken heart.......