Don’t come to me
With that small, scared smile,
Looking up at me with fear.
Don’t tell me you don’t want me to do it again:
I know you don’t.
But I do.
Don’t tell me you’re worried:
I’ll just say there’s no need.
But you knew that already,
So why do you still do it?
Don’t come to me when I hit the bottom
Of the deep black pit.
Don’t come to me and tell me
That you’re still there.
You’ve left it far too late, little girl.
Nothing can save me now.
You left me alone too long
No one can reach me now.
You may say you’re still there,
But I know I’m only dreaming.
No one’s there, not anymore.
They can’t be: no one’s reaching me.
I feel ghostly hands trying
So very hard
To pull me back up. And I know,
Know without being told,
That they are the arms of the ones I cared about,
And that even they can’t reach me now.
So now, I lie in the bottom of the pit
Gazing upwards,
But it can’t be up,
Because there is no light.
I look down and to both sides.
There is no gleam at the top of the pit,
No light at the end of the tunnel.
It has swallowed me too completely
For that simple flash of hope.
Author notes
Option 2 - Depression.
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very sad little poem here. Hope this isn't how you feel. But even in total darkness there is always a way to get out of it. Stay possitive. And don't let negativity swallow you alive. Being possitive and THINKING possitive makes things, little by little, more easy to cope with. But anyways. Good write. Thanks for entering.
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i can seriously feel the weight of depression when i read this. i hate when people try to tell you they're there when they never were. i hate getting to the point where no one can save you...
anyway amazing poem, thank you so much for entering my contest and best of luck! -
great great sadness in this and it better not be true!, but any way its a great angle to look at it from
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