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Shadows Lying Under Your...

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Shadows Lying Under Your Bedraggled Eyes.





I can’t seem to believe what I’ve just heard – there must be a buzzing in my ears
Yet, it seems oddly fair that one of the best times of my life would coincide with the worst.
I have been given the ultimatum to match all ultimatums –
But, I’d still sell my soul to the devil if he could get me out of it –
And I’m not one for shortcuts.
It feels like a slap in the face,
Even though I thought my childhood was over – the punches never stop.
I’m sorry that you had to lose a night’s sleep over this
But it’s not going to take away from the fact that I won’t sleep soundly again
At least not for the foreseeable future,
Put the coffee on.
You ask this of me with such ease, but you don’t know how much this will take out of me
And I’d just begun to refill the tank.
Guess I’ll be running on empty now.
It’ll be the hardest thing I have ever had to do yet –
Salt over my left shoulder –
I’ll do it to change you don’t have to say a word,
Swallow the apology down,
I swear it’ll only stick for a minute in your throat.
Not like the breath I’m holding;
The premature scream waiting to leave me,
Catching on my vocal chords and strangling my lungs
Of every hope they once possessed.
Shooting myself in the head would only make me seem smarter at this point -
“Sorry” is a luxury we cannot afford and I am not afforded.
I’m not going to tell you that I’m alright. I’m not.
Would that you had had the decency to let me sleep peacefully once more,
Too little, too late,
But that’s always the way with you.
Yesterday.
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Powerful, but more troublesome than anything to me