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Greyisntwell Sep 2020
Climb the ladder
Higher and Higher
Wanting to feel the love

Soul shattering screams are beneath me
Climbing the ladder
Higher and Higher

My words are free
Free from the shackles of the heart
Free from the poisons of the mind

Climb the ladder
Higher and Higher
Through the ashes
Through the darkness

I climb.
I will always climb
To escape
I will always climb
To feel the love
I will always climb.
I ain't ever gonna be the man
I was supposed to be.
Oh no, that shining soul,
was washed out to sea.

But maybe, just maybe,
I'll become who I am,
Turn in, quite magically,
To the best version of myself.

One day, on a wish,
I'll stop dreading my being,
I'll look into the mirror,
And accept the fact I am seeing.

I will no longer mourn the skin I have shed,
The layers of self,
The visages of what could have,
Should have been.

I am that I am,
My brother and mother are long dead,
My father now, distantly,
I will climb.

This pit will no longer hold,
My essence, no longer keep,
Me imprisoned, I'll decide my limits,
I'll reach my heavens.

And I might even take you,
I might very well build a home,
A place for us, and our living,
I might just become who I am,
Before I turn into dust.
I only have this one chance, to turn around
Before my life crumbles in rust...
I must, I don't know, but I'll struggle,
Until I can handle,
oh or till the day I can trust,
The way you look at me.

— The End —