Orpheus Complex

Don’t look back, don’t look
 or you’ll lose everything
 forever, gone, in a burst of sulphur
 dragged back into the abyss
 to fade and decay
 to an empty carcass wandering
 without thought or memory.
 Don’t look back, don’t look,
 you’ll lose everything.
 But you itch 
 you squirm
 to glance, to peek
 to remember what was, 
 to walk into the future blinded
 by the happy light of the past. 
 the more you stare, 
 the more you try to see that light
 the darker it gets
 imperfect, it fades
 recedes back through the cave
 pale and sickly
 dying
 dragging you down
 into the pit
 where all is dark
 the light is gone
 the abyss remains
 a gaping black hole
 to swallow it all
 swallow what?
 There’s nothing left.
 All love, all lust 
 all gone 
 it has crushed you all to dust. 
 Where is your soul?
 I told you not to look back.