Outer Shell

It is just an outer shell
It doesn't matter if once
someone loved it and then changed their mind
it doesn't matter if once
someone made a promise and then walked away
It's just an outer shell and it means nothing
if those you have given yourself to
have taken chunks
it's only the outer shell
a casing
like hard rock
around your heart
and the more they take
from the murky fathomless
smashed to smithereens
depths of your being
the more You emerge

It's just an outer shell,
a circumstance
something you clung to
something you chose to believe was real
and it was real
in some twisted sort of way
but it was nothing
no nothing like the
swirling convergence
of molecular fusion
you yearn for
it is not God
it's just an outer shell
and in order to breathe
to pulse
indeed, to live
the shell must crack
and everything
but everything
must fall away
so You emerge

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop