My island

My fears

My place of torture;

For now I am truly Alone forever,

In the depths of this dark cave.

But then I think,

Maybe I am there.

My mind has gone blank

And my thoughts are now dark

I’m afraid to let go of the ones

I love.

For will I ever see them again?

Maybe I chose to stay here

Rotting away forever

Away from the ones

I love

And away from the ones that love me

With my knees pulled to my chest

And my hair soaked with the rain pouring down.

I look outside of the cave,

And I see the ocean shore.

Will I choose to leave my hideout?

And search for a way out

From this darkness

From this loneliness

The palm trees sway

And the water rushes past.

The wind picks up faster and suddenly

I’m scared.

I want to leave

I want to escape

To leave this island forever.

The last ship had sailed,

And I was not on it.

My friends left me alone once more.

In this cave they left me…

Or was it I that left them?

For now, I am alone.

Bitter fate loves to tease me,

To give me something good to tear away.

I wish for my life back

My family back

To leave this island of hell behind me

And never turn back.

Maybe one day my ship will come

To rescue me from this place;

But for now I wait.

And listen to the waterfall rushing past me

And the palm trees continue to sway

In a never ending pattern.

I wait for a ship to come in.

And I’ll see my friends again,

My family,

The people that I love,

But are slowly fading away from me,

I reach for them but grab only air.

“Rescue me from this island,”

I whisper “Don’t fade from me,

And leave me alone once more.”

I cling to the ground,

Feeling that one day,

It might leave me alone on this island as well.