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Unsettling Drug

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I swallow my Way out
And watch the ground leave my feet
It disappears from view
As I drift off to sleep.

My thoughts turn to dust,
And feelings to ashes.
It’s like I never was
It’s like nothing matters.

Like a bird who’s lost its sight,
I dither in the darkness.
Fumbling forever as I stumble onward,
Until I find hope that lasts.

And as I wake
The world has changed
It’s different somehow
It doesn’t fit no more, wrong key
Of course later on of course I realise
The world didn’t change.
It was me.
From, 'Both First And Last' [link]

This was written quite a while ago now. '06 most likely.

I've grown, I believe in my writing, mentally.

I have now realised that ultimately I cannot write without a certain degree of experience. This poem demonstrates that well, I changed the first line today as I posted it. It was originally 'I take the pill' but I decided that that was too obvious and concrete a line. I have no experience of drug use and I feel I have no real right to write about it. Therefore I changed the line to make it more ambiguous.

Sorry if I'm being too wordy.
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Marmonica's avatar
I really like the first line but you really didn't need the quotes around "way out". Would've worked just as well. I really like the way this was written. "doesn't fit no more, wrong key", fantastic line :)