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.

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