Catatonic

I wish I was catatonic.

 

Then I wouldn't have 

to feel such hurt,

this excruciating pain

attacking me from all sides.

 

I could be

comfortably numb,

awake but braindead.

 

Sometimes alcohol

gets me close; 

it paralyzes me 

with a goofy grin.

 

But when the buzz fades,

the anguish sets in.

 

It's hard to try 

to stay alive when 

every bone in my body

wants to die.

 

I want to rid the world of me-

I'd only be doing

it a favor. 

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