Screams
Bitter and corrosive
Not like lemon juice-or vinegar
Like battery acid
Consumptive
Skin falling off bone
Glass house dreams crunching under haste
Consuming
Bone evaporating to ash
Notions of forever lost on the wind
Anger and dread
All encompassing
Screams trapped in lungs
Torment
Because they never loved you after all
And maybe- just maybe
No one is capable of loving you the way you love
And your sentenced to a life of loneliness
And it's like drowning, and burning, and falling-
And suffocating and imploding
And it just is and isn't,
A burning question-
Probably better unanswered
But you ask it anyway
And the thoughts and emotions do summersaults-
And have fists fights in your mind
Scratching at the steel bars on your brain trying to get out
But if they escaped you wouldn't have anything to keep you up at night
Salty and sour
Not like tears dripping in your mouth
Like a fist full of dead sea salt
Fragile
A heart that couldn't break any longer
Just a pile of dust
Gone
Giving yourself to the darkness
The skeletons sitting in the living room instead of hidden in the closet
Heart ache
All encompassing
Screams trapped in lungs
Copyright © Hannah Hockaday | Year Posted 2023
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