The Shadows That Stay Here

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2022

I make dark out of the best sunlight.

I keep looking behind me when it is all alleys.

So please

make me forget.

 

Caring a little too much,

trying not hard enough,

this past brings me to life.

 

I am still bathing in

love when it felt like a goal.

I am still wondering how I got here,

I am so broken I cannot fix you

I can’t fix my own chaotic mess.

 

I have stooped to the level of

using autofill to write my own poems

how can I even call them mine

if the algorithm has taken me.

 

I thought maybe all the memories could carry me.

I thought if I looked inside you right now

I could find an ending.

 

Something pulls me to the edges of all your stars.

Something crashes me into life.

I can’t unstitch myself from this shadow

I am afraid it is the something.

I don’t want to be this human

but I am so afraid I don’t have a choice.

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Written 3/1/22

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