she can’t breathe she can’t breathe
her lungs have collapsed and
i’m left wondering
why it can’t be me instead
i’m submerged in a pit of mud and
i know i can never fully become clean again
god she doesn’t deserve this
a soul is as fragile as a dove and
i’m not ready for her to take flight
please not yet
she’s left there exposed scalp weightless
as though gravity has abandoned her
her body decays slowly steadily
from the cancer in her blood
and i can feel the blood trickle through my veins
to my toes i can’t feel anything and
i think i’m selfish for realizing this
her life span sliced in half by a jagged blade
i feel as if the tip of it skimmed my heart
i’m plagued with a sorrow so intense
i could crumble every mountain
with a single clenched fist
i can’t breathe i can’t breathe
May 1, 2018
May 1, 2018 at 5:16 PM UTC
she can’t breathe she can’t breathe
her lungs have collapsed and
i’m left wondering
why it can’t be me instead
i’m submerged in a pit of mud and
i know i can never fully become clean again
god she doesn’t deserve this
a soul is as fragile as a dove and
i’m not ready for her to take flight
please not yet
she’s left there exposed scalp weightless
as though gravity has abandoned her
her body decays slowly steadily
from the cancer in her blood
and i can feel the blood trickle through my veins
to my toes i can’t feel anything and
i think i’m selfish for realizing this
her life span sliced in half by a jagged blade
i feel as if the tip of it skimmed my heart
i’m plagued with a sorrow so intense
i could crumble every mountain
with a single clenched fist
i can’t breathe i can’t breathe
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