Stormy Night -A Book of Poetry-

Everything and Nothing

I'm sick of it all

Trying so hard to only come out on bottom

My heart beats for certain things

That drive it into the ground

I'm tired of it all

The pain that comes with effort

Twisting my soul into knots

Until it's unrecognizable

I'm bored of it all

The work becomes a nuisance

Giving my best to be disappointed

Time and time again

I'm hurt by it all

Until the stress is like a second skin

Rippling over my body in waves of agony

Pounding on my heart and mind

I'm lost in it all

The path stretches before me into the unknown

Far further than anything I've ever seen

Until I know not where I need to go

I'm hate it all

Every time I think about it

It brings on a new wave of dread

Until I despise the future that hasn't been made

I'm stuck in it all

Lost with nowhere to go

Held down by commitments and promises

Needing to break free but not knowing how

I'm clutched by it all

It's holding me back

Hanging on to the past that has nothing to give

There's nothing to gain

I'm saddened by it all

I know what it holds

And yet a part of me can't let go

I can't seem to step out of the predetermined fate

I'm shaken by it all

Everything about it pulls me under and only frightens

I'm terrified by what might come to pass

Leaving me in the ashes

I'm done with it all

I've lost the will to try

To go on and break free of the pattern

Pulling away from dreams and hopes

Until I've felt the sounds

Touched the sights

Tasted the feeling

Of what it's like to let go and drift away