Aren’t you bothered by those children
Calling out for the Grim Reaper?
Have you come across the big black dog
Feasting on the remains of your will to live?
Can’t you see those bloated butterflies
Feeding on your recurring thoughts?
Look at those unburied skeletons
Of the dreams we had to break.
Have you seen how lost souls
Wander with their unreliable feet?
Have you heard the wailing
Of the monster you have become?
Do you still shelter the parasite
That breathes through your pain?
Have you witnessed how a heart
Becomes so used to tragedies?
Listen to the echoing lullaby
Of a dwindling spark of hope.
Have your eyes met the past
Of both the loud and the silent walls?
Doesn’t a single unshared scar
Keep you up all night?
Have you retrieved your mind
That constantly dwells in the future?
Have you forgotten the false hope
We used to distract ourselves with?
Do you still smell the silhouettes of trauma
Lingering in your daydreams?
While most nightmares awaken the asleep,
These ones make us want to sleep more.
In this chaotic world of uncertainty,
I long to be scared with you.
May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022 at 7:56 AM UTC
Aren’t you bothered by those children
Calling out for the Grim Reaper?
Have you come across the big black dog
Feasting on the remains of your will to live?
Can’t you see those bloated butterflies
Feeding on your recurring thoughts?
Look at those unburied skeletons
Of the dreams we had to break.
Have you seen how lost souls
Wander with their unreliable feet?
Have you heard the wailing
Of the monster you have become?
Do you still shelter the parasite
That breathes through your pain?
Have you witnessed how a heart
Becomes so used to tragedies?
Listen to the echoing lullaby
Of a dwindling spark of hope.
Have your eyes met the past
Of both the loud and the silent walls?
Doesn’t a single unshared scar
Keep you up all night?
Have you retrieved your mind
That constantly dwells in the future?
Have you forgotten the false hope
We used to distract ourselves with?
Do you still smell the silhouettes of trauma
Lingering in your daydreams?
While most nightmares awaken the asleep,
These ones make us want to sleep more.
In this chaotic world of uncertainty,
I long to be scared with you.
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