Ache
To be kept awake, not 'cause you have to drop a cake you've been paid to bake Or 'cause of cliche heartbreak. But for ache that makes you quake. Ache that leaves you opaque to you. I'm gonna stake all I've got you say. But this ache's just wants to have you raked with weighted pellets. The sorts with pain as casing. It's just gonna rake it all. Calm and comfort, pills and saline water. Oh this kind doesn't make you shake with hurt maybe. It's probably hidden; waist-deep in momentary comfort. Ache that leaves the mind and soul awake. Your pastime and good times do you forsake. What would usually slake thirst now stirs it. Yes it's for this ache's sake. Often having you irked over what feels like nothing, or even worse go berserk. At time's end, all of this ache doesn't really die away, does it? Like the jerk it makes us feel we are, it lurks around, clinging to the very guise we put up to cloak it. Serving as clerk to our own inner ca...