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Addiction and mental illness
Trying by Stephiyor
Free Verse Poem contest entry

Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of language.

I am tired of lying in bed, 

Wondering why I am- 

Anything at all, 

These depths don’t seem to end. 

I want control of this soul, 

Of this body, of these hands- 

How they shake, and they tremble at the slightest change of plans- 

And I hate these cheeks, 

The way they glow- 

Turn bright red when im told no, 

Or hear words that punch me in the gut- 

Turns to a void, 

A dark black rut, 

I’m stuck I’m stuck I’m stuck. 

I long for a mother, 

Hands to hold- 

But the mirror says I’m growing old, 

laugh lines living beside my eyes, 

And so much fear all trapped behind. 

I’m tired of wishing for love I didn’t get, 

Tired of trauma I didn’t ask, 

To be this sad, 

To be this loud, 

To be this weird 

This girl I am- 

I didn’t ask to be her, 

and I don’t know how to change, 

Besides a little white pill that numbs all the pain- 

But I’m changed. 

I’m changed, I’m changed- 

For everyone but me,

I’m living out their destiny, 

But not my own- 

I’m all alone, 

Inside this head- 

This flesh, these bones. 

I feel it all, 

Cant make it stop-

Even in my dreams, 

I rot and rot. 

I paint my face with a

Toothy grin,

A self destructive joke- 

I beat them to the punchline to protect the lumps inside my throat, 

I don’t know how to love myself, 

I don’t know how to love. 

I don’t know where to set this down, 

To take this body off- 

Rest my bones, my eyes, my soul,

My ever lasting thoughts. 

I wish I had a switch to just turn the fuckers off-

But I don’t, so I’m here 

I spin, & float & fall,

Till I guess the day comes round, 

Where I return

to nothing,

At all. 

 

     

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