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The Deep Dark Hole
Posted on October 22, 2014
There is a room inside my heart
that is hot and dark and barren
It’s where I take my emotions
when they get too strong for me to bare
In the center of the room
there is a thick metal hatch
It covers the deep dark hole
from which emotion never come back
I push my feelings into a tiny box
and wrap it all in chains
I drop them down the deep, dark hole
never to be felt again
I latch the hatch and leave the room
and not once do I turn back
The hollow empty feeling left
always comforts me
It’s easier to live with nothing
than to live with so much pain
But it’s not just bad feelings
That get tossed into the dark
Happiness and love get boxed
and are tossed down there as well
For even good things can feel bad
when they have nowhere to go
So instead of hanging on to them
I toss them down the deep, dark hole
Now please don’t think me sad
I really don’t mind one way or the other
I’d rather trash my feelings
than trust them to another
For the destination would be the same
whether by my hand or some other
So when I start to feel again
I’ll go back to that hot, dark, barren room
I’ll lift the hatch and look inside
I only hope that there’s still space
My greatest fear is this
Where do you go when the hole is full
Where do you go when there’s nowhere left
to hide what’s left of your soul
Lost and Found
Posted on October 22, 2014
I am not
like anyone I
have ever known
I planned in life
to give my heart
only once
In hopes that he
would give me his
to replace it
But he, instead,
gave me mine back,
I am the same
Same as I was
but my heart
is smaller now
And wiser
it shrinks
from the world
And resides
in that cold
dark region
Only loneliness
and despair
know to find
I am alone
but not lonely
I have lost
I lost
what I thought
was true love
But I found
myself instead
a true friend
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