Linger
Hear your voice as an echo
Lingers in my mind and heart
Beckoning me to follow behind
Join you in the stars above
Yet I feel your warm embrace
Assuring my weakened heart
Those thoughts lingering behind
Those memories eating away
At all the walls which were built
Leaving the softened child exposed
Past lingering within me
Tearing away at all that I represent
My will surviving upon that
Very essence, which eats away
At all I have become to this point
Lingering upon the edge
Which threatens to toss me
Into the blackness of nothingness