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Death is not a destination. Death is encompassing. I smell it when I breath in the rusty stench of blood on my fingers. I feel it in the pain that reverberates with each step as if I had driven a nail into the bottom of my boot and I felt it every time it hit the floor. Death is not a destination. It's woven into the fabric of my skin, using a thread so thin it echoes the line between what makes me a bad person and a good person who does bad things. It echoes the line between life and death  but in a different way to the finishing line of a race because death is not a destination. It's the ball of rage that is fired up within me at the slightest of things. A reminder that I can't ever escape but can't quite tick off my list. Death is not a destination but a feeling deep within me and no matter how far I reach with my sharpened blade I will never find. Besides, I can no longer wish death upon the body I spent painful years learning to love, the defenceless pulse nor my eager heart. Death is not a destination, but it is mine. Whether it be warm or cold it will welcome me. I will be entering myself, the most secret crevices that I found the day the sadness took hold. I will escape. I will be free.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:16 PM UTC
My Destination
Death is not a destination. Death is encompassing. I smell it when I breath in the rusty stench of blood on my fingers. I feel it in the pain that reverberates with each step as if I had driven a nail into the bottom of my boot and I felt it every time it hit the floor. Death is not a destination. It's woven into the fabric of my skin, using a thread so thin it echoes the line between what makes me a bad person and a good person who does bad things. It echoes the line between life and death  but in a different way to the finishing line of a race because death is not a destination. It's the ball of rage that is fired up within me at the slightest of things. A reminder that I can't ever escape but can't quite tick off my list. Death is not a destination but a feeling deep within me and no matter how far I reach with my sharpened blade I will never find. Besides, I can no longer wish death upon the body I spent painful years learning to love, the defenceless pulse nor my eager heart. Death is not a destination, but it is mine. Whether it be warm or cold it will welcome me. I will be entering myself, the most secret crevices that I found the day the sadness took hold. I will escape. I will be free.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:16 PM UTC
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