Warning: mentions of self harm. please, please seek help if you feel the urge to hurt yourself. we've all needed support at some point. it does not make you a burden or an inconvenience, I promise. every protagonist who has had to defeat a monster had a mentor or sidekick. think hercules and chiron. percy and annabeth. you're a demigod on your way to becoming a demon-wrangler.
...and then
She can feel her heart
screaming in her chest.
He can feel each breath
clawing against his lungs.
And the voices in their heads
relentlessly throbbing.
Broken, so broken.
and then...
the reflection of metal in tears
the rattle and shake of pills and bottle
whispering, begging, pleading
escape.
and then...
a flash of silver
a trickle of red
empty,
free
and,
then...
the demons
they come back, stronger,
screaming and clawing and throbbing,
flashes of metal, reflections in tears, trickles of red
rattling, whispering, begging, pleading,
heart, lungs, empty, empty, empty.
over and over and over again
how long has it been since
they came up for
air?
and
when
they run out of
places they can hide
will they finally realize that
there were no demons inside?
Just the voices in their mind
whispering relentlessly
broken, so broken
...
and when
will they realize
their hearts beat steadily
each breath caresses their lungs
and the voices are saying
please just accept that
you are
enough
?
YOU ARE READING
On Icarus Wings
Poetrybut what became of the boy whose dreams were carried on broken angel wings?
