skeleton key

I hitchhike
on dead thoughts
pull new lines
from the ether

a skeleton of word bones
to house the sad remains
of lost dreams

suffering souls
follow behind me
a secret initiation

an invitation
to an unraveling
of the self

this life is leaving me
I am one of them now

in the dark
they hold my hand
whispering mystic rites

my pain is the doorway
​the key is to suffer