10 | endless routine

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Day by day, I feel everything is useless
Night by night, everything rewinds itself
Trapped in the innocent slumber of time
Passes by but no one gives a damn
I stared at everything repeated still
Wondered how could they have time to kill
My eyes lingered to far places
But all I see are cycles of people and faces
Everyday, I go by the baker's bread
Every night, I eat dinner at the bar instead
Then, before I sleep, I head to bed
To wake up next morning and repeat what I read

Day by day, I wake up, eat, and fall asleep
Night by night, I wash my face and brush my teeth
Sit by the window, turn on the light
Watch as the day slowly roll into the night
Stare at the crimson sky until it turns purple
Deep, dark, dangerous but never subtle
Turn back to the desk and start the job
Brush pen against paper until 9 o'clock
Put them down and pull the covers up my head
Hoping next morning I won't wake up dead
Into the next day, the cold is freezing like lead
I get up to begin a new day, instead

Day by day, I fall into this endless routine
Night by night, I watch the sky turning deep green
Write my letters, lie down to sleep
Is this the life I'm doomed to keep?
But one morning brought change
It's in a way that is peculiar and strange
That's when you and love came along
Was it to pull me down or to make me strong?
I asked you questions but passively you looked
Telling me to hurry up or you will disapprove
Then you left as quickly as you came
Suddenly, I am back to when it was mundane

But all things changed cannot be reversed
I've tried my best but the solution is reserved
As I look into the stars, I think of you
Then I write my letters, I write without a clue
I think of nothing by the one that left me aching
While lying down, I feel like fleeing
But where will I go now that you're seared in my mind
Who knows that you can be this unkind
But then again, I let you in, didn't I?
I honestly let you disrupt my cycle with a little lie
And for that I'll retreat until I can't be seen
Because I'm back, stuck inside my endless routine

But all things changed cannot be reversedI've tried my best but the solution is reservedAs I look into the stars, I think of youThen I write my letters, I write without a clueI think of nothing by the one that left me achingWhile lying down, I fee...

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It's like this poem decided to have a story at the middle of it. The first two stanzas is just me complaining that my life is boring and that there's nothing lit happening to it. But by the third stanza, I suddenly introduced that "love" thing. So now you have this hybrid poem.

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