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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Poems
Dec 2018
Melancholia
Who knows the darkness? she says.
I do, a quiet voice, in my head.
the sinking feeling in my stomach when I crawl into an empty bed
the frozen fossils of lovers tossed loosely
on the floor
I claw
from the bottom of my black, holed well
the air escaping like a slither of silver
the bars to my cell
I am a monster without teeth, who feasts
on the loneliness of my thighs
and I am walking, step by step, with the beast
of depression and anxiety, itβs pen pal friend
who I have known for years, through letters
but it now has a body to tend
I crawl
like Iβve forgotten how to walk,
across cobblestones that feel like boulders
beneath my feet
I have forgotten to eat
What do you have to be sad about? She asks.
As if sadness is a currency,
exchanged betweenΒ Β haves and the
havenots
whilst I am in knots.
I get her point, I guess
but I did not choose this never ending death
Written by
Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
(F/UK)
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