Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Stripped Away

There was a time when I used to puke out words

Fantasy after fantasy after fantasy

Never complete, never realized

But always created


The words stilled as I kept going

Silence filled my fingertips

Noise scrambled my thoughts

Fantasy fading into non-existence


I look back to every small reminder of my memories

Memories I can remember but no longer feel

Memories that held instances of my humanity

Drag paths of myself I try to cling to


Every day I feel myself fading

Losing strips of what constitute my existence

Signs of my joy echo weakly in the void

Scraps of my hopes scrambled at my feet


The mirror shows me a liar

Desperately reaching for a purpose

To leave this life of a husk

A facsimile of what I used to be