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insomniatrical Oct 2017
Is it okay if I hold your hand as we walk down this lonely street?
It's cold and there are only a few lights,
Please, I'm scared.

I cannot apologize enough for what I'm to do in the upcoming weeks.
For leaving you,
Ignoring you.

I am sad because his year has brought me so much, brought me you.
But my head will not let me keep you.
I must let go, for I am afraid.

Beyond, in fact.

I am terrified.
That this year will trap me.
That I will have no idea who I am.

But little will I know,

I am no one without you.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
And now that I think of it,
The deed was not so hard done.
Given the conditions,
Given how perfectly it was laid out.

He hurt you, but he cannot hurt anyone else now.
He cannot ruin another young child's life and he can never reach down the pants of anyone again.

Call me mad, call me crazy, but I have done what no one was prepared to do.
I listened to her and I became livid.
What he had done, what he had said.
His actions and what he told her to say,
How he told her to 'keep quiet',
'It's a game.'

Now tell me old man,
Are you laughing as I watch above you,
scarlet streams travelling down your neck and soaking the mattress beneath you?
Do you think it's a game,
Awakening to a knife at your person,
millimeters away from taking whatever air you have left in you?

Now you can laugh no more,
You cannot hurt anyone again.
While the blood oozes in the sheets and you lay there dull,
Shadows cast themselves across your face
And I find myself also wishing that you are ******.

And now, I must clean up. Or better yet,
I will stay here. I will sit here until someone comes to check on you.
And then they will see the scene and I will not need to confess,
I will not plead not guilty.
The deed was done by me and I am not afraid for whatever comes next.
I am not afraid of the consequences,
They can do whatever they must.
I will tell them of what you've done.
I will tell them why I did what I did,
And I will not apologize for taking what was left of the miserable life you had.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
Watch,
   as I become everything you want me to be.
Listen,
   and maybe you could hear me crying at night.
Watch,
   as I finally become perfect in your eyes.
Listen,
   and you might hear me finally rip in two,
Between who I should be and who I am.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
You say I don't try,
Well how could I try if I'm not even in the state of mind to breathe?
How could I try if my head is in the wrong space,
The space where nothingness prevails and I'm on a single track hurtling towards self-destruction?
How could I try if I'm so busy attempting to stay alive?
How could I try if all I ever feel is dead?
My emotions and thoughts swirl around so violently that it's like a hurricane in my head and it's all I can ever do to stay afloat.
It's all I can ever do just to wake up in the morning and go on another day.

But I can't tell you that.
If I told you that, you'd ask me why,
As if I need a reason that suits you.
As if all the therapy in the world could help and as if there's anything you could do to fix it when you know **** well that you can't.
As if it's just a simple little fix and pills will cure me,

But I can't tell you that.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
If you are evil,
Then I am an angel.

If you are no good,
Then I am a saint.

If you are fragile,
Then I am stone.

If you are weak,
Then I will be your strength.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
Doubt me all you want.
Worry all you want.
Fragility does not mean weakness,
You are my strength.
I feel better when you care than if you would not.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
I can remember how I felt
Among the slush and mud beside us,
When our body heat mixed
And we intertwined like the branches of a tree
Twisting round and round
Each other
Like we never had any doubt about where we were meant to be.

I still remember when we kissed
For the first time.
And all the world around us
Made sense in rhyme.
And the moon in your eyes and the stars in mine,
We danced for two minutes that felt like a lifetime.
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