literature

what i've done.

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my hands are all that break my fall. you're never there when I trip, or stumble
but rather when I'm stable and still. but trying to impress you, to make you smile
is more work than one would think. it makes me fall more and more.
I feel like to make you happy is harder than making myself happy.

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grief is such a strong emotion, one I have felt one too many times. but is it possible
to grieve for the person standing right beside you, who is breathing,
moving,
living

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numbers have never been my thing, or my specialty. you believe we are one big
math equation, that no one has figured out yet. but decimals and exponents and
fractions build walls around me and the outcome is already set.
positive,
or
negative?
or maybe simply
zero.

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some complain about being sleep deprived, well what if I'm dream deprived.
you are the only thing that comes to me at night. you are always waiting,
watching in the dark for your chance to cling to my spine. I feel your presence
within my vertebrae and it stings like those needles you used to shove in my chest.
it's not at all unpleasant, it's familiar like home.
but it's not really you, it's the monster
                                          I have brought to life from your ashes.

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broomsticks and potions will never set you free. I know that now after I threw
away the only key. but I will smile at your funeral, because you told me to once.
I never listened until now. I will smile but only a little; no one will notice it hidden
beneath so many layers.

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meaningless words and phrases bind me to my paper.
vines of emotion I have yet to feel. thorns have stabbed me along the way,
and blood stained my heart.
my message may not always be simple, but your words will always haunt me.

"actions speak louder than words."
something totally different from my usual writing.

fiction.
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SkyBlueTattoo's avatar
There are so many things I love about this, I don't think it would be possible to list them all. The word choice, the imagery, the metaphors, the formatting... I could go on forever about the writing. But more than anything I love the content. The message.
Simply stunning. :heart: