Drowning

 

Being swallowed by the black abyss

Holding on to the chains till my hands bleed

Gasping for the air I so desperately need

 

Being swallowed by a life I do not know

Holding tightly to people who are not mine.

Grasping for a love I so knowingly do not deserve.

 

Where did this come from?

How do I change what I have become?

Am I so wrong because of the choices I made?

 

Eternally paying…for those bad choices..

 

Slitting my wrists to show I care.

Holding something back  hidden within despair.

How much blood and tears must I shed?

To prove to you, im worth it?

 

I will never be what you want or need

But I could make you happy.

That you may never see.

 

So I am left…

 

Drowning farther into the black abyss

Lost sight of the chains that held me here.

Exhaling the last cold breath…

 

M. Swanson

©2003

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