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 Jun 2021
efni
it was almost over then it wasn't
and i still don't know how i feel

about that selfishly
bittersweet night
being another
failure

28.06.21
thinking of november
 Jan 2021
efni
they would be gone by now
either washed away by the rain
blown by the wind or maybe
cleaned off the ground by a passerby

the spill, the 'accident' that
i'm not sure I regret even though
it wasnt really an accident that
left those pills on the sidewalk

13.12.20
I'm not sure if I'm glad to be alive, if I'm glad I spilled my only way out of here on the sidewalk that night. is that selfish?
 Dec 2020
efni
im tired of saying 'im tired'
and my 'why's have run dry

im all out of burning questions
and acid tears for me to cry

i wont say please, i wont say stop
i wont be angered when i drop

i wont ask when, i wont make noise
i will not scream into that void

i will not scream
into that void
anymore

21.11.20
nothing
 Sep 2020
efni
how dare you, lungs,
continue to breathe
when i specifically said
to do the opposite

i should rip you out
and crush you then
add you to the pile of
rejected poems in my bin

and how dare you, heart,
keep beating and burning
and squeezing and hurting
and bleeding and-

i should just scream until
you fall out of my mouth
and stomp you to ashes
so you never feel again

how dare you keep me here

18.07.20
sometimes i'd like to rip myself apart.

i am my own worst enemy so i find it hard to forgive my body for keeping my alive, while i endlessly torture myself.

it's sick, isn't it?
 Sep 2020
efni
they don't 'swirl like storm clouds'
and they don't 'fade with time'

they roll around heavily
crashing, cutting and burning

shredding your mind
and ripping you inside out

with a bitter laughter at
the irony that you are

your own demise

you don't cry this pain away because
they don't drown in your tears;
they bloom

01.09.20
nothing delicate or romantic about it.

i cannot recall a day when i haven't been weighted by thoughts of s**cide
 Sep 2020
efni
since you can't hear
the screams
between my similes
or the meanings
behind my metaphors
let me be frank

i will laugh and make jokes
and i will want to die

i will smile and dance
and i will want to die

i will hold you and kiss you
and i will want to die

i will love you until my heart bleeds
and i will want to die

sorry

27.04.20
a poem that i want everyone i love to hear just as much as i never want them to hear.
 Sep 2020
efni
war
crying only intensified
the headache brought about by
my mind being ripped into two desires
to live and to die

those desires wage their wars
both, tortured and eternal
my thoughts are the weapons
my soul is the battlefield

nobody wins
but i lose

23.03.20
2 of 3
 Sep 2020
efni
i am in the passenger seat
of my car

i am about to swerve it
off a bridge

i don't "want" to die
but i can't keep riding
with this driver

04.05.20
do you understand?
 Sep 2020
efni
a couple ideas entered my mind
some disappeared into the darkness
others drowned in tears

i've been trying to write a poem for 45 minutes but
i really want to die right now
so it's kind of hard.

for me, i've noticed that
life is art and art is life

guess it's not that much of a surprise
that if i try to escape one
the other is lost to me

04.01.20
i really want to die all the time, does that still count as living? if not. what the hell am i doing.
 Sep 2020
efni
i see delicate stars
and a wire that could electrocute me

i see shining mountains
and a tree sturdy enough to hang me

i see a beautiful, wonderful world
and the edge of this roof
labelled with an exit sign
pointing downwards

27.04.20
looking around on my roof at night.
 Sep 2020
efni
i was lying flat on my back
so i wiped the tears from my ears
because i got all emotional from
telling the stars my tales and fears

after, i crawled to the edge of the roof
i admit, that idea wasn't the best
plus it was too short a fall
so i'd just make more of a mess

instead i flipped onto my stomach
and grabbed my meal and my spoon
i thought, "i can always die tomorrow"
then i had dinner with the moon

27.04.20
i'm very sad.
 Sep 2020
efni
i am not afraid of you
sometimes, most times, i want you
or maybe it's the idea of being with you
forever, that draws me in

i am not afraid of you
when my mind wanders, it finds its way to you
briefly, for hours, i fantasize about you
but it doesn't feel as wrong as it should

i am not afraid of you
if we met, everyone i love would resent you
yet, i think about being face to face with you
and feeling comforting desire; satisfaction maybe

maybe im wrong and i dont want you
maybe, if i was touched by you
i'd take back everything i claimed

i am not afraid of you, for now
but maybe i should be.

24.12.19
i can't remember what it was like not to feel this way
 Sep 2020
efni
a feeling worse than
wanting to die
is wanting to live too

because you can't seem
to do either

and you can't seem
to do both

03.05.20
please just choose.
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