paper hurts the same way life hurts: strip all of the dense air away as the margins of our memories collide with the graphite of our instrument of pain. words. shelter us with your actions and as the mind wants to get foggy so do the memories of that everlasting change. thoughts are nothing but the imagination, uncontrollable because let's be real: reality *****. and as the words begin to flow so do those thoughts. they appear. it rumbles my consciousness and stirs those repressed feelings. the unspeakable. the hatred. the sorrow. the love. and I just lament my feelings into the paper because I know the pencil won't hurt me. and i keep on writing and writing and writing till the rush of death sweeps over me and Lord knows I just want it to end. So I write. I write some more. And as my hand because just as numb as my heart, I know it's over.