Writing Prompt

listen close

I am here

I don’t make a sound

but I am here

can you hear?

look closely

can you see?

I go unnoticed

slip through the cracks

still

I am here

do you hear?

do you see?

listen closer

carefully now

I’m silent but

I am here

I always have been

look closer

that’s it

I’m invisible but

I am here

and I’m not going anywhere

I am here

I’ve been here

can you hear me now?

can you see me now?

do ...

hello?

can you hear me?

i’m right here…

can’t you see me?

no…

not you too…

am i still invisible?

trapped so deep within myself,

that no one will ever see me.

the forest is dark here.

and alone i wander.

my feet get stuck in the cold marsh of memories

as i drag my way through.

there’s a fog,

it rolls around obscuring every truth in this path.

warping beautiful things,

and making the...

I’m tired of hearing who I’m supposed to be.

And I’m tired of hearing the constant doubts.

I want to have faith.

Please,

Let me have faith....

As I embark on this journey today,

I need to set my eyes on You, my lifeline.

The world’s beginning to crumble like clay

As I embark on this journey today.

The plot’s upon us and time slips away;

Beware that soon there will be no more “next time.”

As I embark on this journey today,

I need to set my eyes on You, my lifeline....

I stay screaming at you

For help

For love

For anything

For the littlest bit of attention

Smoke….

Smoke….

I tell you to smoke to let me out

To let it all out

To understand me better because you think I’m the problem

But you are the one hanging yourself screaming for help from others

That will never help

Or listen

Or care

They can try to help but nothing will work unless you work on it...

I wonder if you are really listening,

Can you even hear me?

I’m drowning alone,

And you don’t seem to see.

I scream

Into the void

But you don’t seem

To hear a word.

You’ll never believe me,

You’ll say it’s all in my head,

That I made a bad choice,

So why am I not dead?

Or am I?

Not quite dead,

Not quite alive.

You still can’t see it from my side.

You don’t hear a word I say,

You don’t really e...

A dancing string of words

Speaking and thinking

And singing and screaming

Unintelligible words

Words that fly

Above the high

You get from continuously

Hating yourself

But still past your ears

Into a void

A solemn empty space

A blank masked face

Eyes hidden under curtains of shadow

You don’t look up so you don’t know

The true sentence intentions

Behind the inventions

You broke yourself into pie...

No one listens

To my pleas of help

as i scream in pain

no one listens when I say it hurts

no one listens when I say its getting bad again

Never has anyone listened when i cry

when i cry in agony

and in anger

Someone listens

only to tell me I am wrong

No one listens

no one cares

no one notices

nk one noticed my increasingly long showers

or my constant frown

no one noticed my lack of motivation

no...

It’s cold down here

I am all alone in the basement

Is anyone there?

Is anyone there?

Why can’t anyone hear me?

Is so dark down here

My body is so cold and I can’t feel my toes. I’m going crazy down here said Sam.

The sound of a distant animal getting scratching on the door

I can hear his paw scratching said Sam

Please please let me out. I’m going to die down here....

Can she hear me?

Crying out?

Begging her to put it down

Put down the pill bottle

Come outside

Enjoy real life

No

Real like is awful

I understand why she did it

But couldn’t

Just couldn’t I have seen her before it?

The last time I saw her she was sitting on a couch

She looked up at me and said stop crying

We’ll see each other again

How ever looking back

We would not

Ever see each other again

T...