Submissions by Em_jay16

I can feel her life slipping away,
each breath vaporising into a mist of memories.

I can hear her heart beats decreasing, the rhythm, a story of her life coming to its last pages.

I fear her last days, the emptiness darkens my spirit, loneliness builds its iron walls inside of me, my soul a desolated conspiracy theory.

When she leaves this earth half of me leaves with her, life will be barren, days a wasted painted portrait of blacks and greys.

Food will no longer have its flavour and laughter will be the falling of tears. Days will feel like...

It comes and it goes,
Like the symptoms of a fever,
Like the pulsing of a heart beat,
Like contractions for a pregnant lady in labor.

It is like the hammer hitting the nail,
Each impact, a swarming of thoughts,
Buzzing loudly as millions of bees in a hive.
Each thought a sting of poison, slowly eating me alive.

The darkness covers me like a cloak,
Hiding me from the light, a source of
Insecurities my heart is too anxious to
Confront.

The darkness is the key to all I have
Ever known, the friend when the ...