*When will I be able to live my life
without having to sleep through half of it?
Will my stomach
ever stop aching?
Why is my skin
crawling?
Which part
of my soul dies
when I check my gut,
stick a skewer through my brain,
pinch a nerve in my neck
until it pops;
what gets left behind
when I make a compromise?*
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 4:40 PM UTC
*When will I be able to live my life
without having to sleep through half of it?
Will my stomach
ever stop aching?
Why is my skin
crawling?
Which part
of my soul dies
when I check my gut,
stick a skewer through my brain,
pinch a nerve in my neck
until it pops;
what gets left behind
when I make a compromise?*
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