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i love being alone

 

hearing my heart beat

feeling the blood

and life

 

a reminder

rush through my veins

a reminder

 

i am alive

i am me

 

facades down

like lifting light proof blinds on a sunny morning

facial expressions worn

unabashingly

fearlessly

 

to exist within myself

reading, blasting music

or simply just being

 

to exist within my head

free

left to my own devices

 

with nothing to quell the tide

 

thoughts rumbling

                            pillaging

                                      spilling relentlessly

drowning ,

snowballing from a tepid bath

to the burn of a searing blast

of shower water turned on too fast

 

ideas

clashing like thunder

rolling like wind struck waves

 

the scabs of past mistakes

breaking fresh skin

resurfacing

bloody and sore

 

i hate being alone

By Hana Davis.

Trapped

Trapped