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I Don't Want To Waste My Life:

The room's growing smaller

As is my state of mind.

An anxious urgency

Clawing to the top of my throat

Only to spew out jagged shards

Scattered onto the desk.

The room smells of paint and something cold.

Probably something like me.

The need to live sets in

Like a heavy weight.

Pulling me under the tide again as I desperately

Scrape my way onto shore,

Fingernails breaking

And palms bleeding.

Knobbly knees are bruised,

Eyes are sporting bags

That are not designer.

Skin blotched and tired.

But I can't stop because I haven't finished

Living.

The room's growing smaller

As chatter heightens

Rambunctious laughter reminding me

I wasn't living as they were Saturday night

When she threw up in a bush

And he passed out.

The room smells of agitation

and something exhausted.

Something like me.

And I realised maybe they're not really living at all.

~J.K.M

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