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Shelley-May Apr 2019
My life could be so depressing but I’ve made a determined decision to make sure hat when I feel like something can wrap its clammy claws around my ankle and drag me to the depths I rip my foot out of its hold and take another step. Especially when I have someone else counting on me.
Someone I need to excel in life for to give them hope they do not have elsewhere. An honesty they cannot find without me. It could be considered a trap in life but I will not view it that way as this creature, my own blood and bones needs me. Has protected me and admired me. I cannot fail him. Nor should I fail myself. He is the constant reminder that I am not a failure and that no matter how many waves of disappointment and destruction try wash over me I will keep my grip and I will not let go.
Shelley-May Apr 2019
To try and forget you...
Is akin to ripping a limb from my body.
To rip away organs I cannot live without,
So I heal and I repair so that I can continue.
Yet somehow you remain,
To destroy a part of me that is you,
Is to rip away a part of myself.
A part of me I would not be without that piece.
It's a part of me I would not survive without.
You; miss; regret; pain; missing,no return;
Shelley-May Jan 2018
I don't want to continue.
I feel I lack the strength
For many reasons that weigh
Heavy on my chest.

Constricting my breathing of this life.
Shelley-May Jan 2018
I am struggling
I have a lust for love
I feel lost without it

Romantic fuel
I'm dead without it

Breathe life back into my soul
I lack a fever
I lack lust
Or love
Missing a piece of me and it's debilitating.
Shelley-May Dec 2017
I understand
That I’m not good enough for you
That I’m not good enough for your family
That I’m not good enough for your friends

I understand
that I have little worth Based on my past actions

I understand
That my word means nothing
That my actions have consequences
That I must bear the burden

I understand
That I am now dubbed untrustworthy
That I may not show my pain
That I may not have boundaries
That I am undeserving

I understand.

I am not enough for myself
Shelley-May Jul 2017
I, harbor danger.
Forever attempting to befriend the beast within
My grip, white knuckles, too weak,
She burns sharp as acid through the cracks in my fist,
Poison trickles through veins, taught.
Panic.
A Grasp of desperation,
Stumble,
on the edge with no choice but to balance
on the tips of broken glass.
A thing of beauty,
pride or disgust.
Both,
it must be
everything at once.
Terror swallowed in the dark
Demented
Chaos
Shelley-May Jul 2017
I find myself drawn to places where we have been together, where I will eat and sit contentedly in the warmth of a place.
Enjoying the warm memories of us together.
I guess that's what we do when we miss people. When alone, we find a place that is familiar.
I miss him.
But in a good way.
I miss the fun we had together.
I miss the jokes we made, the sound of our laughter.
I miss seeing his clear blue eyes under those heavy lashes, peering into mine.
Just being happy to do so.
Just that.
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