Unfold

Now I am dreamless

I can contain all those night I went sleepless

Into the confines of a glass marble 

Upon which I stumble 

 

Are the sounds I hear 

Anything but insincere 

Are the words you cast 

Substantial enough to last

 

Paper, I drown in your endless possibility 

Paper, you are forever a part of me 

You are the greatest release 

I have found the way to peace 

 

You stare up at me 

Begging me to violate your virgin surface 

With all my efforts I feel my words aren't worth it 

Shaking and nervous my souls contents are concealed 

Maybe it's just safe to say 

My heart doesn't need revealed 

 

So i desecrate 

Everything I create 

With honest intentions 

But everything I come to hate 

End up my greatest inventions 

So I try to reconstruct mt soul 

With glue and tape 

Hide it from the monster in me 

That only sees mistakes

 

Paper, I am sorry I leave you abused 

Paper, I know how it feels to be used 

But after you are dirtied and bruised 

Something beatiful emerges 

From depths I do not know 

I only hope that one day I will unfold

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