Survival

Everybody knows I’m high,

Sometimes I crave my madness—it’s the only time I feel like I don’t want to die.


You love the glimmer in my eye.

I blaze and burn bright,

Losing myself in the euphoric summer nights,

Flying high,

Who else but me could bear this sky?


_This morning, the curtains stayed drawn,_

Casting a quiet,

Thick weight in the room.

My limbs heavy,

Sinking into the bed,

Each jagged breath like broken glass in my chest.

Delirious, I drifted,

And now—I’m dead inside.


Here lies a lonely Icarus girl…

Aching for a merciful revival.

Medicated on my own perfect poisons,

The only way I can survive,

The only way I know how to stay alive.

But do I want to survive?


The sun rises, tentative, like a prayer.

Planets start to align,

A sign in the cosmos, a lifeline;

The right chemicals find my need to thrive.

I have conquered the storms in my mind,

I have untangled the chaos of my life.


_Proof of my resilience,_

Proof that I’m indestructible.

Or am I addicted to my own melancholia?

Maybe only the brave dare to fall.

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