there are days like today
when the void in my head doesn’t consume me,
when the darkness where i am doesn’t suffocate me.

it’s just there,
hovering like a quiet shadow,
pressing its weight against my back.

and there i was,
feeling its draining comfort
as though it knew i’d fought enough battles
for one day, as though it had come to keep me company.

and there i was,
letting its presence envelope me
until it was gone—
until all that was left
was my drained, bled-out body
and my mind split open,
leaking out its deafening silence.

and there i was,
sighing out all the heaviness in my chest
as though it were the last,
the only thing left to do
before everything finally ended.