hello?

 

darkness and light?

this is an emergency.

i am calling

day and night,

in the heat of,

drowning in,

desperation.

 

i need to crawl

into an ambulance,

my pulse is weak,

my speech is weak,

my lungs collapse

and my heart breaks

flooding my body

like lava.

help me,

this blood burns

thick and heavy,

too hot.

 

"can you hear me?!

i am calling you

i know you hear me."

 

i am shouting FIRE!

in crowded theaters

of loneliness.

isn't such sadness

alarming?!

 

the operator monotones,

cold and dry:

 

"and who by fire, who by water,

who in the sunshine, who in the night time,

who by high ordeal, who by common trial,

who in your merry merry month of may,

who by very slow decay,

and who shall I say is calling?

 

and who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,

who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,

and who by avalanche, who by powder,

who for his greed, who for his hunger,

and who shall I say is calling?"

 

 

 

~ inspiration/lyrics by bruce springsteen, leonard cohen, & jeff buckley