We Share This Paralyzed

-We Share This Paralyzed-
by Keaton Foster


Here
There
Where
I don’t know
All because
You and I
Cannot look around
We are unable to see
Metaphorically blind
We share this paralyzed
Our bodies frozen tight
Our limbs made useless
We should just be dead
But I fear that we are not
We are in fact
So very much alive
Each and every night
We end up back here
Under these terrifying stars
Punched in this
Suffocating blackness
What we see is part of our doom
A message that no one knows
We are the only ones
That can decipher such madness
The only ones meant to understand
Before the sun does again climb
Another piece of us
Will have been chipped away
Once dawn rises through
Our limbs will again move
Becoming useable appendages
Becoming frightening methods
In which we can further inflict damage
As we have many of times before
We will quickly separate
Parting if only for a time
Because we both understand
That once darkness returns
We will be right back here
Devoid of any and all motion
Under an increasingly empty
Strata scape of nothing refined
We share this paralyzed
Some version of this fate will in time
Leave us hopelessly intertwined
At that point there will be no escape
No separation of matter and state
Frozen through our spines
We will lay here in pitch darkness
Holes punched in suffocating sadness
Will be a message for us to explore
For an eternity of nothing more
We did what we did
We swore allegiance to each other
We cursed God that even death
Would never drive our love apart
Such over confidence has marked us
And now that our once powerful love
Has been completely dismantled
We are left to face the broken promises
Of things that we should have known
Where just not remotely possible
We share this paralyzed
Our love is nowhere to save us
Our faith is no reason to redeem us
We failed each other and God above
Such things he does not take lightly
We should have been humble
Instead of so incredibly arrogant
We of course will have time to reflect
Each night that finds us
Is just a reminder of what’s next
Of what we will face after this
Our promise to each other
And our God above
Is not something
That can be overlooked
We share this paralyzed…


We Share This Paralyzed
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.