Story cover for The Last... by TheAfterOfNevermore
The Last...
  • WpView
    Reads 13
  • WpVote
    Votes 1
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
  • WpHistory
    Time <5 mins
  • WpView
    Reads 13
  • WpVote
    Votes 1
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
  • WpHistory
    Time <5 mins
Complete, First published Jul 02, 2025
Mature
This was a poem I wrote when I was young, probably about 16 if I remember correctly. It is all my feeling and summarizes my struggles with mental illness that I've been dealing with my entire life.

I know this isn't the story that I promised years ago. but life has gotten in the way and I'm finding that I'm just now having time to write again. I apologize to all my followers.

-TheAfterOfNevermore
All Rights Reserved
Table of contents
Sign up to add The Last... to your library and receive updates
or
Content Guidelines
You may also like
You may also like
Slide 1 of 10
Let It Consume You cover
She Thought She Knew Everything (Poetry Collection) cover
Scarred Gem cover
"Things I Never Said Out Loud" cover
Spoken Word #2 (2018-2020) cover
Mind {Prose Vol. 2}✔ cover
Validity cover
 [p o e t r y] cover
Medicine cover
Can I Say Goodbye? cover

Let It Consume You

8 parts Complete

Give yourself time to feel your emotions But don't let them control you Let it consume you But not forever. There are moments in life when you have to let yourself feel, the pain the trauma, the depression the anxiety. There are also moments you have to force yourself out of the darkness, before it fully consumes you. These poems are the moments, when I stewed in my sadness, gave it the steering wheel. But are also the moments I grabbed the wheel and took control. This book is for those healing Those fighting Those who are speaking up And those who are silent