Pendulum Echo

I whisper through the swinging pendulums

Hoping you'll hear me on the other side

Thoughts about my day, confessions of love

Even if you can't hear them, if you're still alive

These notes in a bottle echo off these distant walls

Recollection of shadows, and the pain they have caused

Of all I am guilty, you still smile at me

As I lay here wilting, victim of my own disease

I sing to the silence that wraps all around

My essence, defiance, to the laws that abound

Of goodness and justice, in the end there's just me

Of the life that I'm living versus who I should be

I cradled your fingers through bars colder than ice

My tears stain your skin, heart constricts in the vice

Of all my remorse and the loss leading here

Loneliness, doubt, confusion and fear

My shoulders they shudder as I think of you gone

Even with you beside me, I know it won't be long

Til the seasons shift wind blows you so much further afar

I'd hold you til the end if I could reach through these bars

Holding me fast, pin my chest to the ground

Each breath growing harsher, dwindling sound

The increasing pain as my eyes well with despair

I cry out your name, hoping you hear me somewhere