Pale-faced and numb, i lay in bed tossing and turning through the hours Sheets and blankets flung around anger and guilt twisted around mixed in with blood rushing through body not reaching head blinds are closed and little light is let into the room the dog lays next to me the laziness echoes throughout the house on a workless Tuesday and my soul is out gone fishing there are many things to do palces to go only if I had someone to go with only if there were enough hours in the day to rewrite or revive the life im living breathe some spirit into this metiocracy this routine the cheese grater questions the cheese grater conversations that peel my skin off by the layer the howl that I hear in a distant forest, country, school, classroom, a long gone excitement and looking forward towards something great a long list of withered hellos and goodbyes a long list of dullness boredom and painfully tired moments painful haunting blandness living in the past, in the bed of my own bad decisions the harvest I have planted, sown, and watered the reaping is not what I wanted the harvest is gross and wiltered the fruit is not juicy this heavy sensation of wrong wrong directions turns and paths led me to this point and youβre supposed to know that sooner or later there will be other paths opportunities you just have to see them, find them, care enough emptiness has invaded the space where curiosity used to bloom and maybe happiness flies down like a bird sometimes and sings in the cage that is my heart but her feathers donβt get too comfortable and away she flies into the lonely night leaving me nothing but the stars that paint the sky the colors of my fingertips paint everything blue and the patterns that fall out of my mouth come out like abc blocks too structured and sharp cutting my own mouth my words taste like quiet and feet could take me anywhere on a summer day but they prefer mattresses with blankets and sheets and it seems like I prefer sadness