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William Woods Apr 2019
Anx
My lips sink into their tubular cavern
crunch, crunch
Two bites... I take
I scan the concurrent matter that surrounds me, feverishly.
I begin to feel it set in
The drag
The pull
bump, bump
He goes...
"No, no, no" I hear my psyche mutter... I resist.
But my internal efforts, are fruitless.
The externality begins to disentegrate.
The internality crashes, wailing, screaming into oneself.
The futile attempts force me to face the inward infinite.
It rips me apart
Shredding every fiber of my being, until I am absolutely nothing.
All that's left, is simple consciousness, floating through the abyss.
Nothing, but my internal hiss, is noted.

I'm alone
I'll always be alone
In this eternal internal "playground"
It's what they reserved
It's what I deserve.
Amanda Kay Burke Oct 2022
Fold me like paper cranes
I'm teetering on the edge
Inside chest is origami heart
Youï're tearing it to shreds
Emotions weighing down sleeve
"I love you" explicitly displayed
Typed in boldfacefont nonetheless
Permanent ink refusing to fade
My intentions retain their golden hue
Still in place and intact
Not tarnished by savagery of life
Despite good nature being attacked
You hold my hope within hands
Whether realizing or not
Acknowledge presence when convenient
I am simply an afterthought
No happy ending waits in future
It took me way too long to admit
Finally given up on all efforts
To force into a mold we'll never fit
I believed we'd grow old together before
Us to start a family was my dream
Beneath the romantic surface
Story wasn't as meant to be as it seemed
Potential traded for rush of getting high
For the thrill of fortune and speed
If only had known promises of grandeur
Lies and not a chance to succeed
I told myself problems soon would better
Waited patiently for more than awhile
I reached the point eventually
Where could I no longer continue in denial
I lost control of feelings long suppressed
Succumbed to chaos of my mind
Watching our relationship disentegrate helplessly
Crumbling pieces of what once was so perfectly aligned
Despair took ahold of body
No choice but to accept what we became
After eternity in your absence
Still haunted by your name
Skin cold to touch from loneliness
Destined forever to stay incomplete
I am close enough to bathe in your shadow
Yet still too far to ever bask in your heat
TH Jan 2018
Through my cracked window,
a breeze sweeps my skin,
gently cathartic.
My skeletal thoughts linger.
The remnants of the year
lie in a pile of dust
in the corner, uncermonious
and untidy.

It was a year of yearning-that
that rattling ache in my spirit.
The slippery days could not be grasped.
I watch them disentegrate as
a warm light leaps
playfully onto the floor.

But the growing shadows around me
are stiffly resolute-the darkness of
the inevitable night ahead threatens
the placid warmth.
I am bombarded.
The future is looming, and
all I care to do in this moment
is drown in light.

I don't want to think about any of it,
in this moment,
in my bedroom,
in the late afternoon light,
so I stare at the pile of
dust in the corner, and let
the warm light wash over me
like a baptism.

— The End —