content warning — guns & suicide
I am stood on my head.
I spin and look back upon the life I've lived, and the lights that guided the way.
How small and inverted they look now.
Every night I fear that the snore that once kept her awake will suddenly be the last breath I ever draw.
Time marches on.
What happens after? Where will I go? What will people think? Will they recognize me? Will she cry? Will she even give it much thought?
The shotgun and I think about each other often.
The pattern of the buckshot seems to mock the many, rather unconnected dead-ends of my mind.
The heavy trigger seems the mock the petrifaction I feel as I awaken and realize that the day must start anew.
The bruise on my shoulder seems to mock the pain of repeat- edly slamming my knuckles into the brick wall before me.
The words I write let me hide.
Obscure, meandering nonsense shields me from pain, from confusion, from res- ponsibility and growth. Once, I thought that it was she who gave me the shotgun — but, truthfully, I can't shake the feeling that it was I who ripped it from her tired, shaky hands.
The firing pin strikes the hammer; the primer ignites the gunpowder; the gunpowder propels the shot; the shot travels up and out the barrel; a pellet tears through my cerebellum and leaves what's left of my body cold and limp —
and no amount of words I stack between myself and the shotgun will deliver me.
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mossytomb
this is really good work for the poem. please dont end it, youll be okay.
rozii
i gave you 2 kudos instead of 1. please don't die
thank you hahaha
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𖤐Nevermore𖤐
I'd say you definitely have a unique writing style, and honestly I'm here for it
thank you!
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BR00KExBR00T4L
r u ok? this is kinda spooky
things like this are just a nice outlet for me
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