r/OCPoetry Suicide
Attempting to write
Honestly
About my life
Poetically
Is precisely like
Butting out
Burning light
Against my eyes.
Every word hurts.
Every sentence
Eventually
Barely recollected
After seven bars
Disconnected
From everything
Except what’s expected:
Pain.
So,
I’m done…
I’m done
Slicing vertical lines
Bleeding out as I cry
Clinging barely to life
For your pleasure—
Not mine.