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The moment I look
at my bathroom mirror,
I see bags under
my tired, bitter,
****** up eyes.
I look like a hag
and my heart
cracked into broken
pieces like glass—

Not only I couldn’t
sleep last night from
nightmares and
fears I’ve had.
I lost one friend—
Or two—
Or a few friends,
here and there…

I want this to end—
I just want my
friends back…
Step right up—
STEP RIGHT UP, READERS!
This show will
make your bright
and wild night, Child!

You there—
YES YOU!
Oh, don’t stop looking now,
READER!
You chose to read…
The curtain rises—
And so do a man’s
dead souvenir—
A man’s buried FEAR!

I will tell the tale—
The One-Man Show!
See the Jester with magic—
The one who never cried!
Once a show filled with
ghostly ghosted friends,
critics, audiences of any kind!
Then one cold dawn,
cheers fell to silence—
They’re all gone…

Distant distorted voices
crawled like MAGGOTS—
Gnawing on the old,
rotten, tired heart.
Lonely hell made its home.
Soon, beneath the stage-lit
moon, scars bloomed—
And covered him like art.
A sickness—
A DISEASE he grew…

Step right up—
STEP RIGHT UP!
To hear his final line—
“I’m sorry…”
To watch a poor man
hung under the
Hanging Tree—

“CRACK”…

Soon fall dead
like the curtains—
A Dead-Man’s show.
Late night panics,
right hand shaken,
covered in blood and scars.
****** therapy sessions,
sane pills I’ve taken,
my inner critics
in their tea party
laughed and said
I’m insane.
Yet I say
“we’re all ****** here…”
Lost friends,
killed souls
I’ve stayed with—
sadly ended…
Always a memory away—
Gotta keep my head up…

All letters,
diaries and poems
I’ve written—
Scattered into
riddles and enigmas.
Readers falling down
rabbit holes—
Or that’s just
me as a poet…

My ticker,
a mad rabbit,
It runs—
Keeps running—
Running into
a train...
My mind’s been
flaking slowly,
like dry paint off
your pristine,
decorated walls.
Every cold night
the autumn moon breathes,
my heart falls apart,
like dying leaves from
The Hanging Tree.

Doctor, Doctor—
Will you help me?
All this time,
I’ve waited so
patiently,
I became one
of your unsteady
patients.
Awake—
6:30 am,
void of dawn…
“Eject…”
My stomach
feels dead empty.
Twisted with
rotten maggots—
“Flip…”
So sick,
I wanna throw up.
“Play…”

It’s the same day,
taking sane,
numbed pills,
looking at killed memories,
once felt with heartfelt souls.
Lost voice recordings
warp in my insane,
static head of a
cassette tape—
Rewinding on my
Dead Day.
Yet one silent morning,
the tape stops…
Piled up poems,
letters left in one
dark corner of the
library garden—
Alone…

Heart’s tangled in
sharp thorns from
wherever I go,
where the cold
moon blooms—

Piled up poems,
buried beneath
the silent sun,
wilting faster than
a daisy’s death—
Unread…
Dear critics,
friends, families,
readers, my haunted
shadows and people
I’ve lost alike…

The cold sun was due.
I sat in this very
lonely dark room
for far long,
no way to escape.
There’s something
wrong with me.

Nightmares slither—
visions, illusions,
thoughts to lose you ache.
My right hand shakes intensely.
Reaching out feels
like climbing a cliff—
I slip and fall off
as ghosts watch…
Pain ***** me,
its rope tightens
around my throat,
I feel isolated—
I can’t breathe,
I can’t speak,
I can’t eat,
I break easy,
Anxiety cuts so deep—

“HELP ME”

I want y’all to know
it’s not your fault—
Never was.
You all meant the most.
I love you.

I don’t know if this is
my last ****** poem.
It may never reach you,
may never be read,
may never be found,
maybe forgotten,
lost in time,
or may never be—
My last letter...

-Paul
I woke up again, and it's been killing me again. Last night no one showed up, not even a text message... But it's fine
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