Careless at heart,
irreverently playing with fire
until the stones would hit me.
Were others to turn,
I was to linger.
Fall from grace,
only to stitch back up again,
for another spineless attempt
to reach the end of the tunnel.
Shards of a broken mirror
worn as makeup,
the weight of my sins,
as a black cloak on my shoulders,
hiding with guilt
behind elaborate escapism.
High on airborne pride and delusions
holding judgement in the eye,
ruling out truth with tragic excuses
while bending my knees
to faux devotion.
Life blinded
chasing the fake dreams
of a living nightmare—
soul slumbering
in a vivid comatose.
Traversing sideways, always
yet the current carried on,
unremorseful and unmoored.
And in this crescendo of a waste,
with everything still to lose,
in all those lies,
with no more to gain,
out of fire and stone—
was I born.
A last resort,
with my first breath after coma,
choosing life before death.
Oh, had the light reached sooner,
I’d forgive myself once more,
to forget the crimes
of my mind.
Feb 27
Feb 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC
Careless at heart,
irreverently playing with fire
until the stones would hit me.
Were others to turn,
I was to linger.
Fall from grace,
only to stitch back up again,
for another spineless attempt
to reach the end of the tunnel.
Shards of a broken mirror
worn as makeup,
the weight of my sins,
as a black cloak on my shoulders,
hiding with guilt
behind elaborate escapism.
High on airborne pride and delusions
holding judgement in the eye,
ruling out truth with tragic excuses
while bending my knees
to faux devotion.
Life blinded
chasing the fake dreams
of a living nightmare—
soul slumbering
in a vivid comatose.
Traversing sideways, always
yet the current carried on,
unremorseful and unmoored.
And in this crescendo of a waste,
with everything still to lose,
in all those lies,
with no more to gain,
out of fire and stone—
was I born.
A last resort,
with my first breath after coma,
choosing life before death.
Oh, had the light reached sooner,
I’d forgive myself once more,
to forget the crimes
of my mind.
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