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Flirting with death

let it be silent so that I can hear my thoughts.

there is a constant mumbling of unrecognizable words.

I know im supposed to hear and understand but nothing is making sense.

 

invisible is a good way to describe what I am.

people have made a lasting impression on me that i want removed.

everything was a waste because as quickly as things appear they are gone.

 

sinking slowly into a hole that is being dug beneath me by faces I know.

soon enough ill be suffocating from the dense black dirt they throw down on me.

maybe they assume ill grow into something better.

 

lost out in a field of tall grass i cant see over.

only 10 feet from freedom but blinded and turn towards certain isolation.

without hope im abandoned.

 

sleep is the only comfort available recently.

because its the closest I can be to death without making a commitment.

flirting with death each night, but playing it like a game as I have been many times.

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