Nothing Adds Up
Taking it all away
Drowning in a contact list
Burrowing in a zone of friends
Never felt so alone within a crowd
Never heard my conscious
Screaming so loud
Burning guilt spews like a broken fountain
I live in a lie I have made the truth
Where sheer emptiness fills me
Where darkness lightens me
Into complete numb
I will never feel the same
We will never mend just the way you want
Nothing adds up to your delight
I will never have the courage
I feel the ache take its toll
And like I have known it all along
The pain of truth always remains
I can hide. . . I can claim sane
I could lie . . . and say it will always be the same
Nothing adds up
I am positively stuck
But somehow I learn not to care
Like the lie living in truth,
My cares lie deeply folded beneath
It lingers and hates itself
Nothing truly adds up
Except the pain of truth
-March 21, 2013-
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2013
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