Belong

My darkest moments

Don't let go now
'lest you tumble into the gaping
grey
sunlight

Can you feel it?
It's your heart
it beats not for you, not for her
but for death

The idea (the parasite) claws hopefully
peering its soulless eyes at you
and it whispers words of comfort:
tells you it wouldn't be so bad, really.

You are a rock
solid and reassuring, to whoever needs to grasp
your cold stone skin
so they can lift themselves and leave you behind
in the torrent.

The rain seeps in
leaves you soaked and cold
nothing else
simply there.

It is time -
drag the scythe across your body
there is no place for you here
nowhere to run
nowhere to belong

(Instead I stay in bed
isolated by choice, by fear
leave me alone, this is really the best for someone
like me, I can't cope in this place
I never belonged.)

Reviews

[Lupo]

I like the choppy style and structure used here, but I think it would be fine without the parts in parentheses. Shifting from talking about him to talking about you, I see that you are connecting his lonely experience with yours, but it felt out of place the first few times I read through it. Nonetheless good quality.