Dread /dred/
noun - great fear or anxiety that something bad or unpleasant will happen…
verb - to be seized or arrested by fear or anxiety for an unpleasant circumstance
When I was younger, it felt like i could change reality if i dreamed hard enough,
At night, as i drift to sleep beneath the glow of liquid crystal,
My thoughts would culture and bead,
rolling from my eyes into the ocean of stars
And somewhere among those shining isles,
a pearl would drop,
And offer an escape from this isolation.
I need a new app,
something that won't
irritate my soft soul.
I watched,
behind these glassy eyes,
as every crevice
was rendered lifeless-
a flesh doll tossed to and fro
how many bodies have I watched
become broken and mangled?
Why did my young eyes
witness lives leaking from above?
Now they mistake pain for light.
Or maybe that's
the hard truth of this life,
that glory and pain nursed from the same teat
only for one
to strike down the other
in a fugue passion;
to justify themself through:
gaslighting, deception,
revision, derision.
A hole a million layers deep-
different masks for any occasion.
The mother of tears beckons to me
with a warm, salty embrace.
