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Banquets of Contempt

I was broken, I was severely unafraid

Nothing mattered anymore

Because I had already lost

My family and my friends

 

And my depression was kicking in too hard

I wasn't trying, I wasn't caring enough

Love was never enough

Though there it was in overwhelming amounts

 

I never belonged to anyone

No one ever lived for me

And life was being suffocated from me

That emptiness within me was bruising me

 

How polite, how unapologetic

How fast, hurdling down, my decisiveness

I started tumbling down, without fear

Shameless, without nerves or apathy

 

I was brilliant in the limelight

But behind the shadows I was being swallowed

By anonymity and solitary confinement

The darkness was strangling me

 

I left everything I was, to reach everything

I thought I could be

Didn't I get everything I wanted?

Yeah, I thought this was the plan

 

But I became someone else

Other desires became attached to me

My heart changed, my mind bent, my thoughts evolved

I lost focus, in sight of love and desire

 

I never bothered to figure

What it meant to be happy, within me

The work was tedious, but only on the exterior

No time allotted to the dwindling interior

 

I was broken, I was severely unafraid

Nothing mattered anymore

I could be starving a thousand times more

I've been disillusioned many times more by banquets of contempt

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emanuel-martinez
Mexican
Published
Oct 12, 2012
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