{"sf1_id":365907,"sf2_id":"214ar3be","title":"Knife’s Edge","author":"Jake Shadow Wolf","words":361,"posted_at":"2012-04-16T03:36:00.000Z","tags":["Attitude change","Changing thoughts","Dark","Death","Demon","Depressing","Fighting","Love","Madness","Poem","Poetry","Romance","Sorrow","Wolf","light"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/365907-knife-s-edge","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/214ar3be","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/53/ca/53cad8fd-404d-47df-b3b3-846883b9b5e5","description":"Just a poem that slowly changed as my attitude changed while I was writing it. The one mentioned in it knows who she is, and told me I should do more poetry. I may just do so.","content":"I walk a knife's edge.  \n Demons a wait on my right,   \n Standing in a flaming Light  \n To the left endless pain  \n Is this what it's like to be insane?\n\nVoices ring out in my mind  \n The agony of their yelling makes me feel blind  \n The blade cuts into my feet  \n The pain creates unholy heat\n\nAhead the path takes a sharp turn  \n Behind me the edge starts to burn  \n Above is nothing but sky  \n Below are the forces that hope I die\n\nI walk a knife's edge  \n Why can I not find a simple ledge?  \n Friends await at the end  \n Maybe their aid they can lend?\n\nI walk a knife's edge.  \n Walking along this blade I feel it all fall away  \n Can I survive yet another day?  \n My friends await me  \n Why can't they see  \n That I bring only agony?\n\nI walk a knife's edge.  \n I have made a slip  \n I wish my friends had seen me on this trip  \n Out of the darkness comes a hand  \n I reach for it, yet my limbs seem to move as if trapped in sand\n\nI walk a knife's edge.  \n I have found my salvation  \n She is safety from the desolation  \n As she draws me out of the dark and into the light  \n I can't help but fight\n\nI walk a knife's edge.  \n As she brings me to where I'm free  \n I fight the hands of demons and the dark that try to grasp me  \n I finally am standing on a ledge  \n Thanks to her love I've left that knife's edge.\n\nI walk a knife's edge no more  \n Instead I walk alongside her and my heart is able to soar  \n We enjoy the warmth and the light  \n I am happy because I no longer fight\n\nI am free  \n So long as she stands beside me  \n Together we prepare to stay  \n Though I know the darkness may try to return another day.\n\nI have escaped the knife's edge.  \n The time will come for me to walk away  \n However, my love will always ask me to stay  \n At times gone as if I am the leaves in fall  \n Yet always do I return to her call\n\n  \n  \n\n"}