Driving through life,
The steering wheel shifting so lightly
Between my fingertips,
Indicating at every junction,
Deciding which direction I'll take
To reach my final destination.
But recently I have been verging,
Down narrow lanes,
Picking up speed
As I push down on the accelerator,
80mph,
90mph,
100mph,
Straight down the lane,
Adrenaline pulsing through me
As I keep going,
Faster I scream to myself,
Faster,
Faster,
Never stop.
I never saw the cliff coming
Rock bottom exists. I've been there.
The seatbelt clings to me as I go over,
The air rushing from my lungs,
The roaring of the wind scraping against metal,
The crash of the ocean waves below.
Every ***** inside me squishing against one another,
My stomach somersaulting as I continue to plunge.
Yet during the fall,
I felt weightless,
Like everything that had forced me to get into the car,
Had evaporated.
I continued to fall,
And even now I still find myself waiting
For the jagged impact of
Rock bottom.
Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM UTC
Driving through life,
The steering wheel shifting so lightly
Between my fingertips,
Indicating at every junction,
Deciding which direction I'll take
To reach my final destination.
But recently I have been verging,
Down narrow lanes,
Picking up speed
As I push down on the accelerator,
80mph,
90mph,
100mph,
Straight down the lane,
Adrenaline pulsing through me
As I keep going,
Faster I scream to myself,
Faster,
Faster,
Never stop.
I never saw the cliff coming
Rock bottom exists. I've been there.
The seatbelt clings to me as I go over,
The air rushing from my lungs,
The roaring of the wind scraping against metal,
The crash of the ocean waves below.
Every ***** inside me squishing against one another,
My stomach somersaulting as I continue to plunge.
Yet during the fall,
I felt weightless,
Like everything that had forced me to get into the car,
Had evaporated.
I continued to fall,
And even now I still find myself waiting
For the jagged impact of
Rock bottom.
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