Woke up with headache
How day usually starts
The pain within my cranium
Does not compare to my heart
As tide creeps slowly in
Hope slyly sneaks out
The list of things I'm not
All I seem to think about
My voice dropped an octave
Sound I've grown to hate
It's just another line
In list of unattractive traits
I might be an artist
Good with words I am told
The descriptions I paint aren't pretty
Because world has made me cold
Life getting exhausting
Fed up with each breath
Have no choice but to carry on
Only cowards escape through death
Faces wearing smiles pass
Deepening my frown
Others make it look easy
Depression keeps me down
Darkness spreading as disease
Throughout expanse of my soul
My body feels like it's swallowed
By bottomless black hole
Turning corner after corner
Never reaching the maze's end
I get more and more lost
In labyrinth with every bend
Not sure if poor judgement to blame
Or the culprit is destiny
Either way stuck as a prisoner
Of everything I will never be
Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021 at 1:56 AM UTC
Woke up with headache
How day usually starts
The pain within my cranium
Does not compare to my heart
As tide creeps slowly in
Hope slyly sneaks out
The list of things I'm not
All I seem to think about
My voice dropped an octave
Sound I've grown to hate
It's just another line
In list of unattractive traits
I might be an artist
Good with words I am told
The descriptions I paint aren't pretty
Because world has made me cold
Life getting exhausting
Fed up with each breath
Have no choice but to carry on
Only cowards escape through death
Faces wearing smiles pass
Deepening my frown
Others make it look easy
Depression keeps me down
Darkness spreading as disease
Throughout expanse of my soul
My body feels like it's swallowed
By bottomless black hole
Turning corner after corner
Never reaching the maze's end
I get more and more lost
In labyrinth with every bend
Not sure if poor judgement to blame
Or the culprit is destiny
Either way stuck as a prisoner
Of everything I will never be
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