Someday

Someday I won't be here 
and I'll exist only in your 
memory. 

You'll be here, surviving, 
picking up the pieces 
of everything I left behind. 

You'll remain stoic, 
with your head held high, 
as you remind yourself 
to stay strong. 

You'll be sad as grief 
dehisces your delicate wounds 
each time they begin to close. 

But eventually you'll move on, 
and that'll be okay... 

Knowing we'll meet again 
in the end someday. 

Exhausted

If I'm being honest with myself, 
I'm tired. 

I'm tired of splitting up fights 
between the thoughts in my mind, 
and the redundancy of my habits  
that are anything but fine. 

I'm tired of living for the days 
I think are worth waiting, 
just to see them come and go 
as fast as I'm fading. 

I'm tired of the facade 
that I'm feeling okay, 
when inside my strength 
has begun to decay. 

I'm tired of the cycling 
through the lies in my head, 
and the words I have spoken 
that I wish were never said. 

But now I've lied once more 
and said that I'm just tired...  

When exhausted was the word 
I should've used when this started. 

Insomnia

You may ask me why I'm tired all the time 
and I'll tell you this... 

It's the restless thoughts 
and pointless repetitions. 

It's the endless worries 
and racing questions. 

It's the memories that haven't happened 
as I try to perceive the future. 

And it's the idea... 

And the notion... 

Of living without you. 

Time

I hate time. I wish it would stop. 

I wish time would pause, take a break, and forget to restart. 
I wish the hands on the clock would inexplicably 
stop ticking their way through moments 
that will never come back. 
I wish the squares on every calendar were empty 
with events that would never occur. 
I wish the air would still and the world would be deafened 
by the harshness of complete silence. 
I wish the details in my memory weren't diminished 
by days of mindless routines and mundane expectations. 

Yet... if time was gracious enough to stop...
would there truly be a point in ever existing? 

Monophobia

Her paranoid mind cruelly twists 
facts into deranged delusions, 
irrationality and self-doubt 
filling up the unused spaces 
in her pathetic head. 
 
Her thoughts churn, 
anxiety bringing up the bile 
that belongs in her stomach 
as fear convinces her that  
loneliness is sure to come. 

She will be abandoned, forgotten, 
and left in the darkness. 

So she tries to keep them close. 

Yet her ill-fated attempts only 
stifle, smother, and suffocate 
the people she loves most. 

Her affection too harsh 
and overwhelming for them to bear. 

When

When reflections off the pavement 
no longer make you smile, 
and you haven't heard your own laughter 
echo for awhile... 

When the thought of any affection 
makes you want to scream, 
yet the thought of physical pain 
makes your eyes begin to gleam... 

When your fist feels more natural  
being curled up into a ball, 
but it somehow feels even better 
when it makes contact with a wall... 

When you're no longer sure 
if happiness is obtainable, 
and your fake-ass smile 
is sad and unsustainable... 

When there's no longer beauty 
found in every day things, 
then what's the point of seeing 
what tomorrow even brings?