Your Domain Poem by Chris Haifley

Through all the stress and all the shame,
It's your domain that takes the pain away,
With walls of glass and streaks of sun,
This is the place where our love will run,

soft like the sound of water from beyond, yet still as powerful as the ocean where it spawned.
With joy in my ears and perfection in my eyes, you bring me to life in synch with the sunrise.
And though you tell me that I'm welcome to stay, a darker part of me demands me away.

Every second, I'm invincible, as we run out of the East,
Though in timenI arrive inside, and there appears the beast.
Euphoria far gone, the reality settles in...
And the beast makes sure I know that what I did was a SIN.

Slates of glass everywhere, yet no light in sight. My shame twists and morphs all the joys of our night.
But I won't let this kill me again,
So out flies Pureness, and the mighty tiny pen.

So I defile the paper, not with images, but words. Words that hit hard and twist my innards.
And though ther's no truth in my ever-so-dominant hand,
The slightest hint of reality is too much to stand.

College-ruled and cruel, the hate starts to burn,
With a fire and flame that makes it worthy of an urn,
Cremated with a candle, part of the beast now gone,
Not for good, but long enough to sing a shameless song.

A journey back to your domain makes no bad befall,
With you I am no longer as fragile as the walls,
And with time the sea will whisk this place away,
And with no shame, we'll create a domain, that this time will stay.