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Aug 2015
I'd stand in the shower until the water runs dry
And there's no more drops to drip from my fingertips.
I still myself when anyone else would shiver
These moments have stopped being instances
And grown into forevers.

Let's run away from time and here
You can figure out the rest yourself.
Demons underneath us will be too weak to scream,
And I'll be too free to breathe.

Are you afraid of the future?
Nothing scares me more than a ticking clock.

Being wrapped up here hasn't been so much about family and friends
But instead something about yelling "I'm not yours"
To the walls and the doors
That have shrunk by the inches, more every year.

I see their hands come through the ground
And let them drag me down neck deep
Whispering I'm the only one and how I belong
Pulling me back into this hometown mess with a sickening song.

Am I afraid of the future?
Ask me what scares me when my time runs out.
Chris
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Chris  25/M/Brooklyn, NY
(25/M/Brooklyn, NY)   
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