Sometimes You Try

by Samantha Lowe - Scorpio

sometimes you try so hard to forget who you are
everything that you have ever done
has collapsed upon everything you could have done
nothing has become everything
everything has become nothing
you are a nobody from nowhere
traveling down the broken road to somewhere you don't belong

i have once been a nobody
clinging to all that was of no good to me
clinging to love and life and hate and anger
intertwining them into one unsolvable mass of confusion
i wanted everything i could not have
i got everything i shouldn't have had
and did not want

here i am, for all of them to see
down on my knees for a chance at getting it right
i didn't want to get to the point of almost self destruction
didn't mean to/ didn't need to
didn't set myself up for the fall
but suddenly the light was taken from my life
with almost sudden intensity
came too strong/ came too late
came too fast for me to push away

darkness took over my life
wrapped me around it's pale thin fingers
holding on and not letting go
days and nights spent in solitude
combining into one dark sickness inside my head
spoke nothing to no one
lost all sense of holding on
to the people who considered me their friend
i gave up on everyone
even myself

if you had asked me 10 years ago
if i would be holding this gun in my hand every night
for 6 months consistently
i would have told you, you're nuts
why is it i haven't let go
why is it that i haven't pulled the trigger
one question/ hundred reasons
for i longed to let go
to let go of the pain with-holding my heart
chaining all thought- all sense

i never sought attention
for me, i never wanted attention in the first place
in fact, i distaste it
i run from it, hide, and make it so that's it left back in the dust with no point of return
it wasn't for the mere fact of saying it and pussying out
hell no
if it was, i wouldn't have gone through what i had 
finding myself in the ER each night due to failing

and if they weren't in the right place at the right time, i would have been a goner
yet there they were
the people who considered themselves my "friends"
staying with me afterschool just to watch me
coming over everynight to babysit
to chain my life, my control, my death
until there came a point where i could no longer breathe
when anger and hostility burst out into open flames
surrounding all that had become a part of my being

my fists put inside their faces
holes portraying my walls 
screams echoing into the night
i wouldn't let them watch over me
feed me/ teach me/ pull me off of my knees
i no longer had a point to life
i no longer saw anything as real
i was disillusioned and unmoving
learned helplessness was what i learned
dark and angry was what i had become

i don't know when it started to turn around
probably when someone finally sat me down
and let me talk out everything
let me ramble on about the beginnings/ the ends/ the torment
probably when someone started screaming back at me
started putting up their fists
fighting along back
and allowing me to let it all out

only then did i start breathing again
only then did i let it out
only then could i stop bitching
and start moving on
yet it never will be over
until his death has come around
only then will i awake
and find a day worth living.
Birth sign: Scorpio
Date created: 2001-04-12 18:11:53
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:13
Poem ID: 61903

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