On a Lost Life

I've never felt alone for so long.
I've never shed so many tears.
I've never more felt the bitterness of loss.
I've never been tracked by so many fears.

I never dreamed that this could happen,
Inconceivable, impermissible, damned.
I didn't want to lose my life,
But the lion injured the lamb.

Smiles tell of such deep sorrow.
Why does one even bother to hide?
How much do my eyes tell you?
How far into my soul do the truths abide?

I'll cry alone in my melancholy,
My voice is the only sound.
Other bruised hearts gather together,
But their whispers, by sweet and tyrannical silence, are bound.

Our emptiness fills the universe.
The pain consumes us from within.
I never wished to feel like this.
I'm dying, tortured by the loss of what's been.