Submissions by goodbye (Maisie)

Every lost hope
Every empty love
Every broken soul
Every torn heart
Every crushed dream
Every last shred of bliss
Pulled down
Toward this living nightmare
Tumbling
Down, down, down
Hitting the bottom
With the end of breaths
Giving up
In painful surrender

Glance at the mirror
What do you see?
Confidence?
Bravery?
No
I see a heart
Interlaced with cracks
A smile
Masking years of sorrow
Eyes burning with wistful passion
Dreaming to speak her mind

Wake up with a tearstained face
Memories of the night before flood in
Look down at your wrists
Red and raw and hideous
Marred with the path of a razorblade
Glance in the mirror
Fresh tears spring forth
You see a girl with pain in her eyes
Spark gone, expression lifeless
You see what you vowed never to become
Lost in your emotions
Swimming below the surface of the ocean
You can’t see the smile of the girl you were before
Can’t hear the laughs that once escaped your lips
Can’t feel the warmth of your mother’s embrace
Inside, you are...