brittle bones cracked but not broken
bruised battered bloke but not dead yet

there are many metaphors and lines of figurative language
to describe hopelessness
defeat
someone else won
i'm a fan of these metaphors and lines of figurative language
when i'm being weighed down being ground into the earth by this emotional *******
i need to hold onto something
so
i hold onto the lines that someone else spoke
the lines that someone else cried out in a moment of agony
i hold onto those lines that let me know
i'm not alone
i'm over the
i'm in darkness
line
i've come up with my own response, so cleverly structured in thought
and maybe one day
someone might hang onto my lines
like i've grasped others
i'm over the darkness and it's because
i've been stuck here for so long that i've learned how to see
because while darkness seems like the inevitable black hole that the universe will one day be ****** up into
the darkness
is really just shades of demonic monsters
and all you gotta do to survive
is figure out which shades are the lightest

sometimes i write because i feel empty
i feel like i can fill the void
with words and emotions that should be there but
aren't
it takes me
a couple dry poems
to realise
emptiness is not something even poetry
can fix

hello, you
please stop
i can't
anymore
why aren't
you leaving
yet?
i don't
understand
i keep
pushing, pushing
you're a
boomerang