Is this what it's like to be dead? Wielding graphite lead as I write sad poems that will never be read Thrashing and writhing violently in bed, but merely in silence as these words are unsaid Watching white sheets as they soak up cherry red Looking on from a distance as weeping people don black threads Overhearing hesitant and shaky whispers about a boy who bled Whose overwhelming thoughts were all too much for his head Now open veins breathe oxygen for the first time and showering streams fall overhead It's in this stained water I tread, shouting towards the collapsing sky as storm clouds spread A shaken voice, once again said Is this what it's like to be dead?