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Don't Look Down

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don’tlookdown
don’t look down
        don’t
                 look
                          down.

She’s hiding her heart behind the fortress walls
of her tightly compressed skin stretched over
her love starved skeleton; she’s begging for redemption.
She lives on leftover wishes that have been thrown
away and rejected by shallow girls who have it all.

don’tbreaknow
don’t break now
           don’t
                    break
                              now.

She’s breaking pencils and tossing the crumpled up
sketches of him into her waste basket with all of her
out of date hopes and rotting sweet dreams. They always
turned into nightmares anyway. Now she’s just hiding
her thoughts behind the knowledge that life isn’t fair.

don’tlovehim
don’t love him
            don’t
                     love
                              him.

She knows that she can never have what she’s always
wanted which is a new pair of lungs so she can breathe
when he looks her way… But she’s beginning to realize
that people can look right through you and that means
she’s transparent again, waiting for substance to find her.

don’tlookup
don’t look up
            don’t
                     look
                            up.

She knows that looking up is no better than looking down
because the concrete she’s standing on reminds her of his
stone cold eyes and the heavy heart she carries around in
her constricted chest. And looking up into clouds that don’t
have a care in the world makes her feel insignificant and lost.

don’tsayaword
don’t say a word
           don’t
                   say
                          a
                              word.

She’s lost in the invisible patterns on her ceiling and counting
the days until she can count more days. She’s burning memories
and watching her silent heart go up in smoke tendrils, vanishing
in to the Milky Way’s laughing face. She can’t figure out why the
world gets to spin in circles while she stands perfectly still.

don’thavedreams.
don’t have dreams.
           don’t
                    ever
                          have
                                 dreams.
Inspired completely by my past. Yes, Eeferz can still write that lovely depressing poetry. =D

Hope everybody likes it.

:heart:
-Eeferz
© 2009 - 2024 Eefera
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RueTris's avatar
This is really good. You captured what lots of people feel at some point in their life, and I think everyone could probably connect to this in some way. Very nice. ^^