Realization

Today

I found out

Two great composers

We're lovers for forty years

Nobody told me in the wasteland

I needed to have water

In my chest was

A thirsty horse

Who needed

Everything

I followed paths

That took me to lost

Libraries 

When I couldn't read

It's too late to runaway

There's no hope of rebirth

I'm in a growing darkness

Full of shame and guilt

Looking back at all the people

I hurt

Destined as I am

I live to punish myself

Alone 

Barry G. Wick