A Highschooler's Poems

Taking a Life

You never bothered to check in
So now I'm tallying up my mistakes
With crimson canyons on Sun kissed skin
It takes, and takes, and takes
All it can

A sharp hello from an old friend
That I welcome more easily everyday
For I know it's with me till the end
Last day, this day, today
I whisper

I see phantom shadows dancing
Around the room on the cold sun-lit floor
Their presence heavy, suffocating
No more, I beg, no more
Let me be

I am not meant to be alive
The numbers mean absolutely nothing
One eight hundred something two five five
String by string, strijng by string
Should I? Yes...

For so long I have been enslaved
To the waves washing my footprints away
If nothing I ever do is saved
Why stay, I ask, why stay
In this hell

One second I'm blank my eyes stones
And the next drowning in my empty tears
A Skelton of decaying bones
With fears, so many years
To live with

Everything I say points to this
My destiny is suspended in air
Because I fell in a black abyss
I don't care, no one cares
That's what kills

The world bows down it head in shame
They want attention no care for lost life
Not realizing they are to blame
Cuts like a knife, a knife
To know truth