Why Must Pain Remain?

Passion penetrates me,
Expression I must find,
Desire drowning thru me,
Suffocating me in time.

Why am I still drowning?
Why can I not see?
I feel the tears of passion,
Swallowing all of me.

Oh why can't I just cry?
Why can I not release?
The pain that lies within,
The hurt that will not cease.

R.S.    12/03