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Depression Is Like a Prison

Waking up in the early morning light

To the mellifluous chirps coming from the birds outside the window

It used to be so peaceful to me

But now I wake up and it is like a burden upon my shoulders.

A burden so strong it's like my already aching body is slowly losing the capability it once had

My mind was once filled with so much hope 

And now all of this despair is taking over

Depression is like a prison and I'm sentenced 

25 to life



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Death Is Inevitable

The night sky is black, just as black as the coffee that I am drinking.

The air is frigid and the world that surrounds me is silent. 

The sounds of the slight winds and passing trains around my presence are the only noises that I can make out. 

My body begins to feel tense as if it's the devil himself wrapping his arms around me

The voices in my mind are slowly getting louder and my eyesight is getting blurry

My thoughts are getting incomprehensible  

My breath wreaks of whiskey and cigarettes 

Booze will just give me a hangover and these pills will just make me want to take more next time. 

I began to drag my fading body down the train tracks

Death is inevitable

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You

It was a Thursday evening when I first gazed my aching eyes upon you. 

I watched her from across the room as I felt my heart begin to race 

Hair like the ocean-beautiful 

A smile that can't help but rail me in

I will remember the way those sunset eyes looked at me 

I am captivated and cant turn away

My face gets all red and my hands get all shaky

It's just a conversation 

But I am astounded and can't find the right words to say 

From the way she looks falling asleep at night

To the way she looks in the morning 

I soon began to realize that this is the face I want to see when I'm fighting my alarm clock each morning

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Lost Beauty

Before she left during that frigid night in December 

She places a dying rose

With her suicide note  

A rose that was once so pretty 

To let everyone know

That even the most lovely 

Things in life come to an end



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Whiskey and False Hope

My mind is racing, the world around me is spinning.
Time is slowly passing by.
I think I am in that place again, I tell myself but I'm not really sure where that is.
It's been four months since I last felt your lips against mine.
I started smoking cigarettes again but I can't burn the taste of your lips.
It wreaks like whiskey and false hope.
It's like i'm drowning but I just won't die. 
It's been four months but i'm back where I started.
I'm staring at these blank walls around me
It's like they Are crashing upon me yet I don't want to move.
Everyone around me is living while i'm losing grip of reality, As I fall to the ground.
I wake up 6 hours later. I guess I need to take more next time. 



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Your Kiss

Your kiss is like a drug and I want to overdose

Infatuated by your love, captivated by your smile

Eyes like a sunset and I am lost

Like my last sip of whiskey your name is burn to my lips



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Darkness

There is something about the way the frigid air feels against my aching bones.

Or the way the sheets slightly glide amongst my open wounds.

The darkness feels like the devil 

And I'm face to face with him

He wraps his arms around my neck 

As if it is a rope slowly taking the life out of me 

As my last breath leaves me 

He whispered in my ear 

"It's time to go"



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Rapid Thoughts

Like the way her long brown hair flows

To the way her eyes shine

I am captivated and can't turn away

From the way she looks early in the morning 

To the way she looks when she is falling asleep late at night

I am stunned 

My hands get all shaky, my face gets all red, my throat gets all dry

And the words I am trying to say won't come out

I get all tongue tied and I just can't find the right way to say

I love you 



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Late Nights

Late nights i'm up stressing 
These nights seem to drag until the early morning dawn 
When im not speaking to you. 
When you're on other line it's like the early morning dawn comes too soon. 
I haven't felt a damn thing but when I came across you it was like a head on collision I could not avoid.
These walls I built around myself came falling down. 
Like the way the waves meet the shore these built up feelings cannot be diverted. 
Your mind is a beautiful place in which I wish to not visit but live.
Your thoughts are like my most prized possession, I will treasure.  
I'll look in to your eyes and that's when i'll see my future.