"I don't know how many times I have survived myself, without telling anyone else."
I lied awake in endless painful thoughts
my urge to cut
my urge to purge
my urge to run away from them and hide inside a world of darkness.
I lied awake in death-awakening questions
Why must i exist through the pain kitted inside my bones?
Why do i write?
Why do i write.
'Him?'
and yet no.
People like you and I fight a battle no one can ever fathom because it's a battle no one can see. And we don't let them.
I write for myself
I write to remind myself that i am a warrior.
that in this battle there were nights I use to lose. But some how still came out alive.
You fight yourself and beat yourself up for so long that eventually you become a master of surviving a war.
It is not you.
It is me.
I write for myself.
Dec 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018 at 6:30 AM UTC
"I don't know how many times I have survived myself, without telling anyone else."
I lied awake in endless painful thoughts
my urge to cut
my urge to purge
my urge to run away from them and hide inside a world of darkness.
I lied awake in death-awakening questions
Why must i exist through the pain kitted inside my bones?
Why do i write?
Why do i write.
'Him?'
and yet no.
People like you and I fight a battle no one can ever fathom because it's a battle no one can see. And we don't let them.
I write for myself
I write to remind myself that i am a warrior.
that in this battle there were nights I use to lose. But some how still came out alive.
You fight yourself and beat yourself up for so long that eventually you become a master of surviving a war.
It is not you.
It is me.
I write for myself.
You are a survivor. Each one of you.
I took a break from poetry insisting myself it shall be a time to focus only on myself. Little did i know how much this world of poetry meant to me. I wrote this for mere appreciation of how much poetry helps us. How much poetry has helped me.
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