Haunted Eyes

In the dark grave shadows called home

A tortured man carries his burden

A heart so heavy, a mind astray,

As he tends to his mother, night and day.

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Looking deep into her haunted eyes

He witnesses his mother's decline

Her cries for help are a piercing sound

Into a loneliness in which he is bound.

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The day is now forever night,

The calling of death puts up a fight.

Somewhere she's lost in a soul full of turmoil

He's losing his grip in his mother's uncoil

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In the silence of their dim-lit room

Echoes of laughter are now covered in gloom

He is a prisoner in this ceaseless chore

A son's devotion to his mother evermore

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The world outside revolves uncaring

He's trapped in a nightmare endlessly staring

Each day a terror a descent into madness

As he tends to her needs in a reality of sadness.

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He whispers to her though she cannot hear

His true words of love said with a tear

He longs for a break for a moment of rest

But his life is entwined in this endless caress

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In the bed of despair he finds strength once again

For love knows no bounds it's endearingly constant

Though his path is weary and his heart a heavy stone

He'll care for his mother until the day she's called home

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With Love, RHC