Dostoevsky espoused
the eloquent adage
to live without hope
is to cease to live
and it rings true
i've been a shell
of my former self
ever since we kissed
on that frigid rooftop
leave my carcass for the vultures
i'll give up the ghost
relinquish the illusion of control
once and for all
hang me from a rope until i'm dead
the visions of a fraud lying
in your bed are
a noose i'll loop
over my head
i am a slave
my enmity
masks a
melancholy reality
i'd part the seas
just to see you
walk on water
if i could only believe
that you'd reach out for me
but these concrete limbs
leave me sinking
interminably
the sun raises its weary head
above the distant horizon
i'll daydream of growing old with you
attending protests and fighting injustice
making love on a beach beneath a new moon
but when our star
tucks itself to sleep
each night
i can't erase the reminder
that you choose
to lie with a different lover
and deny the flame of this
never-ending romance
while i toss and turn
misery my only company
hope is a hoax
Feb 15, 2016
Feb 15, 2016 at 12:07 AM UTC
Dostoevsky espoused
the eloquent adage
to live without hope
is to cease to live
and it rings true
i've been a shell
of my former self
ever since we kissed
on that frigid rooftop
leave my carcass for the vultures
i'll give up the ghost
relinquish the illusion of control
once and for all
hang me from a rope until i'm dead
the visions of a fraud lying
in your bed are
a noose i'll loop
over my head
i am a slave
my enmity
masks a
melancholy reality
i'd part the seas
just to see you
walk on water
if i could only believe
that you'd reach out for me
but these concrete limbs
leave me sinking
interminably
the sun raises its weary head
above the distant horizon
i'll daydream of growing old with you
attending protests and fighting injustice
making love on a beach beneath a new moon
but when our star
tucks itself to sleep
each night
i can't erase the reminder
that you choose
to lie with a different lover
and deny the flame of this
never-ending romance
while i toss and turn
misery my only company
hope is a hoax
"Losing all hope is freedom."
- Chuck Palahniuk
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