Truth without Poetry


I feel hopeless; things will never get better.
I give up on thinking that this will not last.


I feel useless; this is my final letter.
Everything I have done well is in the past.


I feel purposeless; I can find no reason
Everywhere I am, the landscape is strange.


I feel powerlessness; I have no control
The things that endow my misery, I cannot change.


I feel helpless; abandoned and stranded
There is nothing I can do to alter my fate.

I feel worthless; I add little value
To the people I love the most, I am a weight.


And despite how I try to muster my once solid will
The things that used to excite me have lost all the thrill.
I feel ashamed and hate myself most of the time
And the worst of it is I am not honest about it, except in this rhyme.

I do not want to try anymore.
I do not want to be with people.
I do not care what I look like.
I can not sleep at night.
I do not want to eat.
I do not want help.
I do not want medication.
I do not want to write any more.


And while compared to others
My despair may seem mundane.
I can not shake the feeling
I want just an end to the pain.

© 2017 Butch Maxwell



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