The Water’s Fall

Lungs shivering
searching for that elusive breath
between
the tears
years
and the unfortunate remains
of what we have left

I still want to remember
that beautiful place once called home
and the broken promises
of never being alone
the sacrifices
even as the breaths slowly began to fade
gasping
fighting
trying
to hold onto the family we made

But the nothingness
of so many of the same today's
turned our yesterdays
into a tomorrow
that was desperately too far away
I'��m drowning
in this madness
this sadness
dark notes playing out a melody
of the worst kind of emptiness

I always believed
you would take my breath away
I just never thought
it would be this way
I know
I waited too long
swimming upstream
through the circumstances
trying to hold on
to what I thought mattered
never realizing
my soul was battered
but as I stand
in the rain
wondering about it all
trying to capture that elusive breath
when the reality of my life
is that I'��m living the water's fall