No Good Ending

Up on the bluff

Your house yellow, grey

Stands a sentinel over the Strait

The force of you pulled me in

And kept me coming back

Again, and again I tore my wings

As I threw myself headlong

Recklessly knowing no good end would come

Yet unable to stop

The pulling in my core so wicked

As if it would tear me apart if I did not obey

Tearing my flesh, my bone, my sinew

To the four corners could I not be with you

My mind was fogged over by your spell

My desire undid me over and over

My thirst for you was unending

Even though I knew no good end would come

The days, the weeks, the hours passed

I was content, at home, only for a season

One day you turned your face away

I never knew the reason

You knew me not nor cared to ask

I knew you more than you imagined

I saw through your created self

Your demons picking apart the soul that you denied

Still I offered up myself to you

A Phoenix to your sun

Even though I knew no good end would come

Silently my mind erupted

The lava cooling in the evening air

Throwing up steam as the heat dies out

I lost my wings as I ran headlong over the cliff

We were not star-crossed or even lovers it seems

The truths proffered and proposed

Ultimately exposed as lies and deceits

Given out without reciprocal receipt

By a selfish man who could not share

And when your truth was revealed

There was no good ending there