If I could, I would pick up my ink pen and drown an ocean into you instead of drowning you in it. Extract these rotting feelings for the sake of your ignorance. Carve scriptures into each delicacy of your brain so you wouldn’t have to dwell in such misery every day. Wire faith to your blemished heart. Imbue purity to your sullied soul. If I could, I would write you through all depths of insanity without any harm so that your mind no longer persists the thought of death. There was a time I thought you were dead. Only you were painted red in a black and white world. Like you have been walking barefoot on a broken road your whole life. Your demons imitate life And life imitates the demons. You are the one being tied down by invisible, nonexistent chains. So unaccepting of help that has come for you Watch the sun touch the horizon reach the meeting of sun and ground and Find further still, The limits you would like to reach only run from you. You have such a murderous tongue for society people. But one day I hope to see you write yourself into existence Rather than to let yourself drown in it. Why has you dying become something so habitual? Darling, death is not a friend of yours Nor are you a friend of his. But I know of your frequent dates with death Tell me Does his neck feel like happiness And do his lips relieve you of your suffocation Now are you lost? or are you found? Do you recognize the irony Of the most terrifying things happening in the most angelic places Charm yourself upon that bridge Whose lights light up the city in golden arrays With a glazed look you’d think. In sadness seen go by You are charmed by either war or hope. These occurred robberies have taken much But they left opportunity Important people And a moon in your window A future that only you know the ending of And a slice of the midnight sky. So it goes.