I protect myself from the monster
in as many ways as I know how...

I feel like I've lived a million lives in this...
traversed a hundred different landscapes and...

despair has me in a chokehold;
my lungs fight for a chance at survival...

if i could live in the depth of your eyes, i...
if i could swim from shore to shore...

6 months seems to stretch oceans-wide
while feeling like the shortest distance...

My head is fuzzy, bubble-wrapped for safety.
There are no substances in my bloodstream...

[It wasn't me].
Splotches of color like a...

And I am loneliest after midnight,
after my mind exhausts the possibility...

If I crack,
If I falter for a second...

And maybe someday, when I gaze at the stars,
I won't spend the night wondering where you are...

you left me to
fend for myself...

hesitate
you hesitate(d...