Abyss

I walk slowly across the rotten planks
they creak and moan wanting to break
I reach the end
and stare
over an empty abyss
I look down into
the blinding void
nothing but
a pitch blackness
that threatens to corupt my very soul

I hear the voices now
calling
cooing sweetly
for me to jump
to decsend into the
pit forever

they give me reasons
to jump
tell me they can grant
wishs, dreams, all of it

I listen to the sweet cries
for what seem like hours
I think of falling, jumping,
flinging myself over
into the endless abyss

I stare deeply into it,
then simply turn and walk
back to reality,
there will be other days