I’ll Never See The Me You See

I’ll never see the me you see

Beauty and grace 

Simple words that leave me with a bitter taste 

Fractured and flawed 

Devastatingly depraved from the world around me

But you stay

Unafraid of my dangerous mind

The poison that leaks through the cracks that I hide

Cover the holes 

The scars 

And bruises

Stuck in a state of limbo

And still you wait

Never wavering from your post

Guarding and protecting this lifeless ghost

The grains of sand that fall

Quicksand to my heart

Slowly wasting breaths 

Unapologetically insane

This disease killing the cure

Running from the masses

Hysteria heightened with each will to live

Cutting down my progress

Slowly

I sink back into my hole

Solitude excluded 

as they poke and prod

Manifesting fears that were never there

This constant state of despair 

And still you wait