Vessel

It likens to swimming in pools of acid,
slowly eating within, escaping, leaving a void without,
similar to falling 1000 stories,
meeting pavement to get up close, personal,
like slitting one's wrist, watching blue blood turn red,
turn purple,
similar to losing one's head,
trying to vacate memories one bullet at a time,
one nine, one forty-five, more than 10 million ways to die,
but none hurt like this,
none instantly destroy bliss,
no absence reverberates an eternity,
knots tied tightly, aim for the corner of the ceiling, jump,
no problems, no quandaries,
barely able to muster 11th swig of vodka, no rocks,
chased by two trembling fists full of valium,
the volume of screaming is drowned out by the silence,
love drowned out by malice,
the glass palace shattered, unbreakable,
its inescapable,
nothing in this entire world hurts like heartache...