Damaged

8 0 0
                                    

I have witnessed the birth of happiness
and the end of innocence.

When one dies, another takes its place.

It's a roll of the dice of what replaces the first.

I take in the pain of a once-loved song skipped,
the partially read book collecting dust,
the collection of blank journals hidden away,
and a stomach stretched from empty binges.

I don't know if I deserve relief from this.

Relief is temporary.
Pain doesn't stop coming back.

No matter how far I run,
how much I write,
how much I love those worthy,
I can't fill in the cracks in my heart.

Caffeine and MeWhere stories live. Discover now