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Starving Artist Jun 2018
There's nothing worse than being stranded in the vast ocean of possibilities and unknowns of what life could've been like.

Just sitting there with nothing.

No hope... no comfort in sight.

Only the endless and unforgiving horizon of regret.

Being stranded as long as I have leads to overthinking and unrealistic dreaming.

And now I'm drowning in these thoughts and dreams of what my life could've been.

What life would've been like if I had decided to get up and dance, if I had not let myself get in the way, if I had gone to see you more often, if I would've told you how I felt.

These thoughts are killing me.

Pulling me under the rough currents and ripping the breath straight out of my lungs.

I'm dying to know what would've happened if I was brave and not engulfed in my anxiety.

But now all I can do is brace for the next wave of despair and regret and hope it doesn't take me with it.
Starving Artist Jun 2018
Everything feels pointless.
Mourning over our memories.
Probably won't get over this.
Trying to survive.
Yearning for you.
Starving Artist May 2018
What more can I do?
I've given you all of me.
What more could you want?
Starving Artist May 2018
I wish you wouldn't speak.

Every time you open your mouth your words intoxicate my mind.
They roll right off your tongue and right into my system.
I get drunk off your words and you take advantage of me.
You use these spells to entrance me into doing whatever you want.

But eventually, I sober up.
I realize the damage that has been done.
You smooth-talked your way into my heart.
There's no easy way to kick this addiction.

I wish you wouldn't whisper these lies in my ears.
I wish you didn't make me feel so dependent on these doses of you.

I wish I could get over you.

I wish you were mute.
Starving Artist Apr 2018
"They never knew what they had until they lose it."

But what if I did?
What if I knew exactly what I had?

I tried so hard to hold onto it because I could never find something like that ever again.
I wanted it to last.
But I guess it was never up to me.

Isn't that worse?

Knowing what you had and it leaving anyways, despite your best efforts.
Knowing that you weren't enough to make it want to stay?

Isn't that what heartbreak is?
Starving Artist Apr 2018
We looked at each other and we were almost something,
Like we should have kissed.
Like we should have embraced and comforted one another.

But we decided to be just friends.

So now my life is full of "what if"s and regret.
Starving Artist Apr 2018
I wish I could get out of my head and into others' so that way I could see myself from their perspective.

Then I'd know if my life is worth it or not.
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