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Broken Road

By: Katelyn West

By Katelyn WestPublished 8 years ago 1 min read

Trying to get lost the road blurred.

My face burned and my breath stung my chest, it leaves you feeling each and every heartbeat.

I failed once again.

My endeavors to get lost were getting extreme.

I left the path behind.

"I promise you won't have to remember me."

Surviving was the wrong word.

I surrendered to a seizure of loneliness.

The sunset was taking forever to get over itself..

Killing time waiting for the dark.

The suns blaring rays made me squeeze my eyes until the whole universe went orange-red.

Anything to escape.

I wondered where I left my easier thoughts.

I tracked the blue sky with each swinging pass, waiting for gravity to get predictable.

To bring me back to earth.

When it finally did, I was no longer alone.

My thoughts went graphic.

It pretended like it was leaving but it didn't go anywhere.

It closed into a massive black hole that he left behind.

The sunset was lapsing into a cherry-stained twilight.

A breeze came in from somewhere and set itself against my radical heartbeat.

Alone.

I’m lost without you.

Crazy and cursing, I stood up.

-k.v.w

sad poetry

About the Creator

Katelyn West

Writing is my passion. Words are something that is able to move people and that is what I want to do.

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