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Rose Cliff Aug 2021
I sometimes feel like I’m dying
And I think
It’s all finally caught up to me
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
My soul belongs to the South Pole
But this vessel belongs to it too
Splitting chasms in my existence
my chest is being torn in two
It hurts
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
I drove down the
roads I had driven
5000 times
but I could not recognise them
each street light,
each white line,
even the crescent in the sky,
they were all strangers to me.
These roads they were foreign;
then I wept.
For it is terrifying to be aware
while you lose your mind.
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
we feel in the full fury
of each dimension
our essence constantly filling
but when we express
we force it into the planisphere

we can only express in less dimensions than we feel

our essence is brimming
constantly filling
unable to stop the flood
unable to release the valve
we are stuck in the infinite
forever rising forever filling
forever drowning in a sea of colours
forever deafened by velvet sonnets
forever blinded by lilting mosaics

what a world this would be if we could express in all the dimensions we feel
but would we begin to feel in new dimensions?
perpetuating the need for expression

forever falling
in the positive void coefficient
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
The air is thicker than it use to be
It takes too much strength to fill these lungs
Why did they change the way we breathe
Weren’t we trying hard enough
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
If I rip out my throat
You cannot hear me scream
If I blind your eyes
Can you cannot see me heave
Or my tears, you cannot see me cry

But you have bound my hands
And torn my throat
So you cannot hear my screams
But delight in watching
My contorted mouth cry silent tears
Rose Cliff Jul 2021
Please,
someone
tell me.
What do I do
If I can’t die
Because I have hope in the future
But I can’t stay alive
Because the present is so much crueler
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