I lie here, shriveled and dying
I’m hungry, still crying
My will disappeared moments
ago
Now I drag through the dust
Only the bits of me that I must
Before I slip into the cocoon
of forever
I’m wasting away here
And it is worse than I have
ever feared
For I’m hollow, I’m out here
alone
The trees hover over me
I writhe on the ground waiting
for their branches to open up so at last I’ll be free
But it seems I cannot leave
you just yet
I stoop my head and I pray
As I wish to look up into the
day
To see the sun poking her long
golden tendrils through the green
But the hope that existed is
ticking itself away
As from the edge of my vision
my world begins to fray
And I’m slipping from
consciousness into the great beyond
I was supposed to live long
and well
With a lifespan of stories to
tell
But here instead I lie broken
and beaten
My body can no longer take all
this pain
Only the hunger remains
I’ve starved myself to the end
of the world
I had hoped I would fail
That someday this would merely
be a tale
But it seems that is not what
is meant to be
As for me, I will die
And no one will cry
Not a soul here on this Earth
Will have tears to shed
For the girl who disappeared
I ran, I up and left
I took off, tried to escape
My eyes could not see
My ears could not hear
But my heart hungered for love
and my stomach for food
I was lost
I had run away from all I had
known
With the hopes of finding something
better
But instead all I found was
pain
I am starving.
For the girl who lost
everything, for the girl who took everything, for the girl who couldn’t take
it, so her life-she had to break it, and no, she won’t make it past dawn.
