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Oct 2014
We're all tired but we'll never sleep again
We'll stare at the ceiling and flip through the images of our mistakes in our heads
We'll make up problems to solve
Or think of things that could go wrong
We'll just be mad at people
Or we'll sit there and cry until we pass out at one in the morning
Or until we go to school at seven
We've all broken down before, and all my friends,
I think we're the ones they forgot to fix
Or we're the lost causes
Or maybe we're just invisible
But we're the only people who can resent our own hearts for beating
Our minds for thinking
Our feet for taking another step.
Maybe we strive for invisibility
And fall in love with every second that we aren't seen
Every second that we can't hear our own hearts race
Every second that we don't drown in our own thoughts
The happy thoughts always seemed to go too fast
The peaceful thoughts never seemed to exist
We constantly move and tremor
Even when we're sitting still
We think ourselves to the edge of the earth
And some of us have fallen off
Some of us just keep looking down
But no one is looking forward anymore
I'm sure that we could, if we tried
But we just don't want to anymore

I gave up today.
I stood up and I walked off.
I didn't even look behind myself.
I didn't speak.
I didn't cry.
I gave up,
And I walked off.
Please comment :)
Lydia
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Lydia  18/F/Pennsylvania
(18/F/Pennsylvania)   
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   --- and Abrilita
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