LIVING IN DEATH

You used to speak fondly

Of the skies, your music,

Those sunflowers you grew in your backyard

You were passionate

Your poetry excited you,

The sunshine, the rain you wrote about it all

Where did she go?

That girl who danced through life

Floating from one cloud to another

Always a positive outlook on everything

Where is she hiding?

She gave up, she got scared, didn’t she?

She wished for those skies to fall

Now that music was poison to her ears

Dead crushed flowers spread in her room

Somewhere from some cloud, she fell

I guess hell broke loose

When did she decide that she is hopeless?

That her life is now worth less than her death?

And even as she drowned

Who was it that made her not want to hold her breath?

She apologized for speaking now

Shrunk into a corner

Pressed into a wall

She used to give life to her own soul

Now she didn't want to live at all

~people aren’t born sad we make them that way