Abandoned

It is five a.m. I suddenly awaken from a dream.

My chest is on fire, and I remember now, that I have lost her.

A large beast stirs suddenly in the leaves outside my window.

My world is reduced to a thunderous silence pounding in my ears.

A fire consumes me from within like the furnace of a sun.

I cannot move and my eyes stare without seeing.

O I have been abandoned.

The woman I loved like no other has left me.

Ten thousand fiery devils dance on the needle of my pain.

It happened so quickly, the way that she left me:

Vanished, a dead leaf blown hither by the wind.

Just three days ago, she told me I completed her.

Then she left without warning, a thief in the night.

O I have been abandoned.

Cast adrift on a night sea, in a boat without rudder or sails—

Under the full moon, voices of the dead call to me like birds.