Fervid.

Killing You

Black blood seeps into your pores

Filling you, drowning you from the outside

Your veins choke on it spluttering away

As your breathing is restricted, shallow

You shake your head furiously

Clawing at the invisible hand

Clinging to life with every desperate gasp

The streetlights stare at you watching you go

As your eyelids flutter

And your body begins its descent

As your nails shatter and break

And your life is theirs to take

But there is no vicious hand

No blood upon your body

This isn't the day you die

This isn't what you thought

You're the one killing yourself

One cigarette, one drink, one drug

At a time

You'll only realize your killing yourself

At the end of your line

r.b

Background Story:

This was basically to represent how you're essentially killing yourself. You are the invisible hand and you're the only one who can stop it. You never really realize how bad what you did was and how it affects your body until you're on deaths doorstep. This one wasn't really as emotional as the others but I really wanted to write something out of my usual style. I wanted you all to feel what it's like to die at something you can't controls hands. That's what addiction is, if you can't stop then you're not going to and won't want to even when people try helping you.

I chose this song because I really wanted an excuse to use this song because Taylor Momsen is my idol. It also kind of fits. Yes she was Cindy Lou Hoo in the Grinch and Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl for those TV addicts out there.

Hope that none of you ever have to go through that or see anyone that is.

A/N: Dedicated to @jessicatrice for the lovely cover she made me for this collection of poetry.