What are you thinking?
Why do you want to know?
I love you, that is why.

Please God take away
This excruciating pain
That consumes me.

Syncopated heart
Misses a beat, then adds one
Time for reckoning?

Somehow he always
ended up fitting the noose
around his own neck

‘Why are you hollow?’
Lack of strength, he figured,
lack of insight, and faith.