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River Reed Feb 2020
It's too early

For lucidity
For now
For your memory

Endow me with unconsciousness
Capacity for unaware bliss
Atrocities are my waking moments
It's too early to be writing this

It's too early

For living
In melancholy
Amidst amiss purgatory

And yet
With these and without this
I'd be bawling
River Reed Feb 2020
The sun neither rises
So it dawns on me
Nor does it fall
So sets my capacity

Merely a spinning ball

For my immaculate dream
This cosmic scheme

Lies; beyond my control
River Reed Feb 2020
You only wake me from behind closed eyes

My pounding heart electrifies

Then I go to school

Amplified
River Reed Feb 2020
Soles spotted with blood

Soul knotted

Oh—suffocating flood

Wash the pavement

Saddening memories of love
River Reed Feb 2020
I'm lost in what I can't compose.

What is between every thought?
Are minds ever silent?

What of my time is wasted?
How can I determine if my time is valuable?—if any time is.

Where are you?
Who are you?
Are you?
Maybe it's you.
Maybe it's nobody.
Maybe it's somebody else.

I have infinite answers.
To infinite questions.
But within the plethora: an infinite amount lay beyond my grasp—how is that so?
It merely is.

But maybe there is one answer.
To all the philosophical enticements.
To all the pleasures and pain.
To all there is.

It's merely absurd.

But what to do in response?
Respect?
Spite?
Laugh?
A combination of these and all there could be?

All that I do.
Distractions against this.
Distractions against my familiarity with what is unfamiliar.
Self-awareness: a cursed gift.

All of this.
All there is, and all that has the capacity to be.
It's because I'm lost.
Lost in what I can't compose.
River Reed Feb 2020
Bottles like bulimia

Heartbreak like ******

And together

And alone

I'll
    
      drown...
River Reed Feb 2020
If love is a desire for what one is missing,

Then I'll love you forever.
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