Putrid

A Poem by Akashi

Want to Disappear

Tear me up and break my bones
Make my existence forever unknown
Burn my eyes til they disintegrate
Before they know, and it's too late
Make it so that I never breathed
Never walked and no one ever believed
That someone as putrid as I could see,
This beautiful world that was created for humanity.

The bugs that dig through dirt that are me
The waste that is thrown into the sea
How come I can't just disappear
From the earth, from the atmosphere
How can I still smile to my ears
When people will one day know that I'm here
Wasting the planet that was made for the growth
Of plants and the elderly and the blossoming youth
Why do I manage to still sleep soundly
When I'm ruining the world around me
I'm wasting the years of others that strive
Who work hard and labor just to stay alive
And I, who does nothing but laze around in happiness
Thinks of myself as something other than worthless.