( i’ve always been the out-of-place puzzle piece, so i wrote about it. )
she felt tired, empty, hollowed.
her soul rotting and begging to be swallowed,
the darkness’ painted nails slowly scraping at her raw skin,
luring her into the abyss that she already has been in.
the void where her heart should be ached, she’d noticed. a melancholic song she truly hadn’t missed.
oh, how her thoughts heaved, running breathlessly- chaotic and free, yet as trapped as can be.
her mind infected with a colorful array of phrases unsaid and scenarios never done, yet for some reason, she’d believe them like a moth to the sun.
how could such a smart girl have been so very stupid?
the eternal ebony whispering sweet nothings into her gullible ears,
taking her trembling hands with its ivory ones as it wiped away tears.
“come with me” it said, it’s garbled voice dripping with such an unhealthy amount of sweet,
almost deadly as she pondered with her lip between her teeth.
she wanted to, oh, she really did.
the horrendous thoughts too heavy for her shoulders to bare,
how she wanted to drop them by the bottomless ocean- and she would if she could, she swears.
yet the mortal realm called for her still,
her family waiting and still all very real.
so she thanks the disappointed creature instead,
for the warm comfort it placed in her head,
its depressed form disappearing into the path it could’ve led.