Thread: My Pledge to Solitude

I've had this poem for awhile now, and finally thought I'd share it with you all. Enjoy.

My Pledge to Solitude

To thee I pledge fealty
Today I offer fresh meat
Hear now this promise made
To shun lust and deceit

These days I've done wrong
Mean all but little to me
Plucked hearts with white tong
Made a mountain called misery

My eyes are wide
And ironically clear
And my wits are sharp
And my ears can hear

I have no lids or lashes
For which to play blind
And I cannot fall to sleep
To shutoff my mind

To block out the sound
Of ones I've betrayed
Just hearts in the mound
They saw it but stayed

Now there's a hole
Behind their left breast
Dug by an eloquent mole
Like a bastardly crest

Performed with deft hands
It's a painful excision
With no anesthetic
Though it's not my decision

I watch as if from one way glass
With two selves on each side
The other a malignant mass
This one wants to cry

A pair of minds to these eyes
The one with love no one sees
Because I'm hidden so well
And to the door are no keys

But today I peer out
From the bars on my door
But with no mouth I can't shout
So I'll write it from the core

To thee I raise my right hand
And hold my head up straight
With tears as my ink
And the pen as the gate

The tip to my heart
I write this requiem song
Now may the healing start
And may you live long

I've pledged myself to solitude
And my ways will hurt no more
This poem as a measure for magnitude
Will be my last disturbing score