Cost

I drink a cocktail of moonlight

It makes my gut feel tight

Loathe to rage or fuck or fight

I surrender to the night

In a quiet clearing

Lit by Luna's light

I build a meager fire

To lessen Dark's cold bite

I stare upon the heavens

And contemplate my life

All the people I have known

The ones I've loved and lost

The truths that I've held dear

And tossed

The battles I have fought

For reasons now exiguous

So frivolous in thought

That's when it occurs to me

That to live

Comes at a cost...

-DeRicki