Life derails the peace that was once my mind
Ghostly and still my body resides
Hollow and empty as one stares in eyes
Seeing the empty void that is this shadowed room
Filtered by the blackened shades
Each day an silhouette of words slips through my dried lips
Seeking what most want
Love
Yet I remain a small fraction tuned with the world
Forever in a daze glued to my brightened phone
Stuck scrolling through laughter and drawn-out motivational screens
Simmering over the dollar signs of how easy It is to be alive
Inside I bleed
Listening to a small chord chiming through a piano
Teaching it’s love language
Stroking keys that blossom like a fall’s day
Yet grasping the full force of a spring’s thunderstorm with every high key
Still in onyx through my days
I hear the words be more
Do more dammit
Mimicking me of all the pain that screams at all signs
I ache with these thoughts
Even through me
I empty my silent chamber
To tell my suffering-
