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 Jul 2019 Hadley Potratz
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You told me that
I couldn't run forever
Well I can run
Until I drop dead
What better escape
Than death itself?
 Jul 2019 Hadley Potratz
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I thought sleeping all day
Would stop me from thinking
Yet it couldn't
Keep the nightmares away
Ever feel like your walking the wrong way
Fighting the current to stay afloat
Seem invisible in a crowded room
Talking so loud but not being heard...

We’ve all been there...

Stay calm
Focus on you
You’ll figure it out
When the time is right
I know you love me ,
You said so your self

I know you're trying to heal me ,
You didn't say so but I can see it in every effort you make

But it's difficult to un-break me
So I'll just act like I'm alright

I'll give you a fake smile
Hoping you won't see straight through the lie
Thank you for trying
Draining life to fill it with
watered-down pain, can he feel now? If my teeth make
an appearance, you'll be given your fix of my 'happiness,'
injected through your cranium. I wish I could navigate my
naive wishes, as I'm sinking in my pillows, and the light on
the ceiling is winking at me as I'm patched up, written in 'unhappy'
My uncanny doubts are fancying a feathery gift of sleep,
unlike this fascination with
falling feet to my death of dreams-
It's like I like sadness. I hate it, but I want to cry. I can't anymore. I'm so confused right now with everything in my life, just like this confusing writing.
dances me madly backwards
through the mirror of your eyes.
born to walk through fire,
your footprints linger
high on the mountain ledge,
the drop exhilarating 
and final.
dance me outside into van Gogh's "starry night"
lay my head gently
on the leaves of tomorrow.
memories slipping, fading into the hurricane
of what once was.
i feel your breathing
and your heart beating faster.
in a whisper
love is gone.
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