Every time i open my mouth, it's a close call
cause i might blurt something out that's only reserved for the walls
inside of my room
inside of this home
the walls inside of my head. . .The weight of the secrets
pinning me down on my deathbed
could outweigh the weight of the
weightless faces that I've slashed
in a blind quest to live before I wake. . .Mother! Father! Help!
there are bodies piled up by my bedpost
a thousand people I've killed in poetry
have come back to haunt me. . .Brother! Sister! Help!
There are shadows loitering by the doorway
bound and gagged and buckling in the foyer
and Help! They're all wearing my face. . ....
Every time i close my eyes, there's water
water sloshing through my sluggish mind
is the water i used up cause my thoughts
like
to swim around and drown
but things fall out
of them without intent
for my mind is leaky and in dire need of repair
a faucet corroded after having let through flood after flood of thoughts sinking in despair...
Sweet dreams are made of sleeping pills
but can you really dream if you don't sleep?
Can you really cry if you don't feel?
and can you really live if you've died?Traveling through a medicated trance of saturated fantasy
The more i run, the more i'm pushed into the hands of this denial of what i don't want my days to be. . .
A walking denial, like the rest of the lot
Know, did you not that what's in is screaming out even if there's nothing?
Hope, will you not that you're the same as them and screaming at something that's not there?Cause I'm just somebody else, just another empty parking lot barely holding onto the asphalt washed and brushed away by the rain
I'm just somebody else living through the unquenchable hunger of what i don't know and feeding off of the one thing i know of in abundance; pain. . .Yeah, piggies, i'm just somebody else just like you.
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Nyctophobia.
Poetry"I don't really want to save the world. I just want to die trying." © elliott. 2018.