Tuesday, January 21, 2025

existing with melancholy

I am sad, all the time. 
Even when I am happy. 
There is a pit in my chest. 

Everything I do is enrobed in grief. 
My mom is gone. 
And that is in everything I do. 
My dad is gone. 
And that is in everything I do. 

I have lost these parts of me that I will never get back. 
A vital, intricate part of me. 
Is gone. 

I am seeing the world through the distorted lenses of grief. 


losing where i came from

This feeling
It yawns and swallows me whole.
No matter how much I claw at the the warmth, it will slip through my fingers like sand. 
Hopeless.

I look around. Where do I go? I can't, I just
It's gone. It's all gone. 
I am alone. 
Truly, utterly alone. 
I want to go home. But home is gone. She's gone. 
God, I just want to be home.