Alone

The darkness encloses slowly,

Circling my mind and keeping

Me from feeling anything.

Why am I always so alone?

Secretly weeping a river

Of memories to slip,

Fall, and drown myself in.

One single light could

Easily save me now,

 

Yet no flame appears in

The midnight sky, flashing,

Dancing away as the pain

Builds and explodes,

Nobody saves me.

Nobody has to save me,

And nobody wants to save me.

 

Why should they?

 

I am a wreck, I am the scene

After a monsoon sweeps through.

I am the tornado and

I am the damage caused.

Spiraling, out of control, out

Of reach completely.

 

Come and find me,

Be me, see me, help me.

Try to solve my riddles.

Be willing to try.

Try to try.

My knees are bruised from

Begging, pleading, screaming,

Sounds pierce the stilled night,

Rupturing the peace that we all

Long to hold within ourselves.

 

Where are you?

 

I can not be calm, still at sea,

The tides are strong and

the water bitter.

 

Save me.

I’m drowning.

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