I Have Awoken to an Empty Bed

I have awoken to an empty bed

And recollections of past sinning

With women.

 

 

I have felt spiritually dead

And fought to forget regret

In bed.

 

 

But, for a long time

I have engaged

Only in rhyme.

 

When I leave the stage

Only my rhyme may remain.

For there is no pain when dead.