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Dominique R Jun 2018
I am on the cusp of something
A change of pace
Flipping my world upside down
Fear reaches its arms towards me
But I refuse to fall into them
Here I stand
In the midst of my fear
Ready to face
Whatever comes next
Fear will not win.
Dominique R Jun 2018
It’s like a stabbing in my gut
a sharp wave of terror
The sensation you are not in control
I’m not in control
I need to be in control
My mind races and gets lost in itself
My hands shake and reach out
But no one is there to grasp onto
Dominique R Jun 2018
I wanna live
I want to feel the sun on my face
Bury my feet in the warm sand
Curl my toes and feel alive
My mind is my prison
My thoughts are my shackles
I am stuck in routine
Desperate to break free
I don’t know what I want
I definitely don’t know what I need
But I know I want to feel alive
I want to feel like I am living
Not stuck in my tower
Watching people from afar
Leading lives that I wish I could lead
I am rapunzel
Wondering when my life will begin
When all along
I have the power
The power to change my life
To make it how I want it to be
I am stuck
But I long to be free
Dominique R Jun 2018
You only visit me in my dreams
Soft, the outline of you hazy
Whispers and shadows
We waltz around each other
Twirling, you hold me close
Ornate designs on the walls
And a sparkling crystal floor
The scene shifts and we are in a meadow
you put a flower behind my ear and grab my hand
Pulling me close and planting a kiss on my forehead
Suddenly, the world melts away and I am awoken
I am left with only a feeling
An echo of you
And as my memory of us together fades
I start my day with a murmur of your presence surrounding me
And holding me
Dominique R Jun 2018
I am drowning in a sea of nos
the waves tossing me and slamming me against the shore again and again
Indifference surrounds me and drags me down deeper
inhaling the salt water
I try and choke down the denials
rejection scraping my lungs
hollow words and polite hellos
ring in my ears
As I sink to the bottom
Dominique R Jun 2018
What do I know
I know nothing
I am known by no one
except One
Dominique R Jun 2018
The sinking feeling of an anchor dropping down to the bottom of the sea
Hopelessness
Waves slamming you against the shore again and again, gasping for air and only getting lungs full of sand
A lifeless body being spit out by the ocean
The tide gently caressing it
Like you would caress a sick child
Only to pull it back in
Where it will be swallowed by the depth
Remembered no more
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