War Of Souls Poem by G J Salgado

For all the things I didn't say and all the places we could've went
I never knew you'd be taken away and still I wept

All the years I cuddled you and calmed your fears
I stood and watched as you slipped away; now an angel who wipes my tears

Alone in the woods I ran as fast as I could
I too left the world behind like I always knew I would

I continued to run toward the dark until I felt like nothing
I flew across the path of a planet that didn't owe me anything

I saw through the eyes of war that I wasn't accustomed to seeing
It took me deep into a path far from my own feelings

I became the human that no longer belonged
Soon I changed into the animal I knew I was all along

I was a human doing awful perfectly imperfect animal things
I'm now an animal doing terrible imperfectly perfect human things

I lost who I was and I knew I could no longer be
My existence disappeared and I wasn't even a tiny seed

My bones were laid to rest and I no longer hurt
For I was a grain of sand amongst the dirt

Everything from my past was inside the mud where everything dead once lived
Every inch of the person I once had been was erased and I escaped what I couldn't give

I waited for many years before the rain fell
I dreamt of the sea that would end all hell

The flames burned to the core until the final flood
Then the dirt I once was became consumed with my blood

Entrapped inside the soul I thought was forever trapped in the ground
Along came the rain from your own tears and that was the moment hell had drowned

The end of the Earth and all suffering came
I thought of who I once was, still yet without a name

Shame filled the heart's of those who dared to keep my memory alive again
As time and the years went by I continued to grow there in the sand

Soon I was the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter
Being the fourth-largest moon and a density that took us both higher
Mine was the driest of all ojects known
In a Solar System replicated of your soul

In the soul of Jupiter I became a new moon
Of the deepest, darkest twilight noon

It was a new life that I wouldn't know yet
And Lo was a name I would never forget

But soon a spell came upon me
The walls of the stars united and I became the parted sea

There was a war that was growing within the animal I was and the human I used to be
I was betrayed by the one who swore us to secrecy

Until the secrets of muses bloomed in the coldest of summers
When the wind found a way to escape the warmest of winters

You were the darkest part of me that you've shown
Always feeling alone; I never would've made it without you on my own

I wondered what my new soul was and what it was for
As it spoke to me for the first time against the souls of my own war