Space Cadet
Lost files # 34 Oxygen Depleting.
I want to yell... Till something breaks... Shatters...
Loosens
But I bite the inside my cheek...
As hard as I can...
To feel something...
To taste iron in my spite
To know that I m alive...
That my fractured brain
Is telling me lies...
Anxiety at its best
Depression,
outstanding warrants..
Slip through the creaks...
I sat in the rain
A smile plastered imperfectly
Across a tired,
bored face..
Spitting out blood,
To watch it pool around my bare feet
Seeping into the grass..
Relapsing
I tilt my head back,
Exposing the softness of my neck...
For the monsters that lurk just beyond my peripheral
Daring them to come out...
To tear into my throat,
Devouring all the words I couldn't say,
Rotting,
Pulsing...
Beautiful,
You...
The raindrops crushing into my eyes
Forces me to close my paper eyelids..
Forces me to focus inward...
I feel myself breathing ..
Relaxing
My chest rising slowly..
I feel you next to me,
My head still in the clouds...
You're not here..
Not flesh anyway ..
Strings of memories
Vibrating faintly with fading emotions...
I wonder how real this life is...
Soaked to the bones
Skin ,
Memories melting off bleach pale bones,
Into the wooden steps..
I keep reminding myself this day is almost over....
That tomorrow is a new day...
But deep down,
I know these days of fading out
Can bleed into consecutive days...
That I have to be positive...
Practical..
To keep pushing through my normal routine
Discipline is important
If I want to make it out alive..
Feelings aren't tangible
Suffocating,
But they don't define me...
I m standing in front of you...
Solid and whole..
Almost whole
I m laughing
Holding a conversation loosely
It's enough to satisfy the average person..
And
That's enough..
Yet I m miles away
On a distant shore
That
I've never shared with anyone
The waves smashing into my feet
bruised
Standing still..
Just waiting,
Waiting for something to bring me back..
A touch...
A code word...
a feeling...
I m not an unhappy person...
Please remember that
When I can't find my way back home...
-Danny Sheehan
07.20.24













