the night crawls on
pulling me deeper and darker
into the chilling layers of my mind
where you can get lost
in the sheets of shadowy, ebony silk
and the shadows crouching, ready to leap;
where my thoughts are always turning
into the treacherous thieves
of my soul's sacred sanity
and these twisted thoughts
forge an equally twisted crown of wild roses—
thorns and velvet scarlet,
placing it on my head,
forcing me to believe i reign over them
with a steady hand—
but i'm anything but steady,
and i start to feel the tremors
barreling through my bones,
fueled by the thoughts
trembling their way
down the familiar pathways
of anxiety aches and
the porcelain pain that's hard to hide
when it breaks—
won't you let me,
dear anxiety,
sleep tonight?
push me along
on a raft
alone and bright like
a shot-down shooting star
bobbing on a moonlit river
brimming with lost memories
that can't touch me,
where i can drift
into dreams
with a dove
fluttering free
against golden skies
and with a mind
that's just as free
of its rusted chains,
where i can dwell
as myself
and nothing more,
where loneliness
meets a quiet love
and where anxiety
can't follow me
into my sweet realities
softened with sleep
i wrote this at midnight last night hehe:) hope you like it<3
love,
mari
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