“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.â€
-A.E. Housman
i don’t know
how i feel
or if i did
whether i could translate
such foreign feelings
into words
it has something to do with unexisting
simply closing my eyes
and erasing everything from everything else-
nothing violent
no war raged on my body
no bitter end
because i’d too erase the start
instantly the world would come apart
all the things you thought that mattered
lying at your feet fallen and shattered
i don’t want to be
i don’t want to feel
i don’t want anything that is to be real
i don’t want to think
i don’t want to touch
i don’t want to breathe
because i do it too much
i don’t want to remember
the beat of my heart
i just want to sleep
as the world comes apart
i want to scream
that i just don’t know
while i collapse
in some room
alone
so i can try to not figure it out
i’ll just shut my eyes
and wait for the rain to wash
everything away
or at least smudge it
like an oil painting
i want to destroy what you know as art
i want the world to come apart.
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