Tales Of An Unescaping Narrative

You were a brilliant pearl against the galaxy’s black cushion

You were the curiosity of many sailors about what was beyond our sky’s curtain

I was the captain of a ship sailing towards peace

And you were the merciless sea

I got caught in your angry current 

Your absence was hell’s commencement to unleash

As if an artist’s accidental spill of crimson

Had splattered across my soul’s blank canvas

I understand it was destiny’s dictation

Of an unrelenting script; an inescapable narrative

You built my character’s description 

Your name stood in front of it like its adjective 

You were dangerously positioned 

On the razor’s edge of my existence 

One cannot outpace the tale 

Spun by fate’s hand

What is written must be done

Your name was like a slur to my happiness,

A name that weighed down my tongue 

But if only I knew what I should have known

That you were one of misery’s chaperons