Loneliness is a labyrinth

Loneliness is like the puppeteer

Dragging you along a desolate valley

As you feel the cracks of the ground

Scratch up your knees

But one day

A pair of scissors threatens to cut the strings

And you cry out to nothing

As two sides begin to emerge

The side that clings to loneliness

And the side that despises it

So much it feels suffocating

Your throat dries up

An instinctual craving

That almost feels natural

Like how the body yearns for water

Loneliness wants to be loved

Wants someone to pay attention

To the hole in its heart

Is there a limit?

Maybe a threshold exists

Where it feels colder

To be in someone's arms

Rather than to be alone

The chill never leaves

And the world feels like a distorted daze

Just waiting for the darkness

to take control

Rebellion licks my skin

Rebellion licks my skin

Until I feel the inner heat

Course across my veins

And I realize the rebellion

Was the door I needed to open

To listen to the whispers of my soul

To wear the crown

Shaped like my heart

Rebellion licks my skin

A clear thrill

Not to erase an empty void

But to shatter the performative glass

I stood behind

And I didn't even notice

Until I felt the flames

Burn away a version of me

Prickly Darkness

The darkness can consume the heart

Slowly like a rose withering away

It stands in the corner breathing heavy

Until it runs out of patience

Asserting dominance over the ones who hold light

Within the darkness

Prickly vines grow

Reaching out to strike it's target

And strangle the ones not deemed worthy

They feel the prick of every vine touching their skin

And a strange fire sets them aflame

Until the pain is no longer just pain

But tilting on the edge of pleasure

Imprinted on the skin

Marks the moment

Where eternal becomes physical

The sun was waiting to kiss her

I let my dark side play

As if I was waking up from eternal sleep

I had unleashed the puzzle pieces

That I found so hard to deny any longer

My darkness felt like needles on my skin

I wanted to wash away the feeling

As if the water could make me pretend

That I didn't have sides I wanted to hide away

But I unlocked the chains around her arms and her legs

And I let her wander out the door,

Her bare feet touched the grass

And the flames engulfed her

As if the sun was waiting to kiss her

I unearthed a part of me

I unearthed my sexuality

A quiet rumbling in the night

That goes unnoticed by others

I uncrinkled the can

That shrunk out of shame

I don't need their prying eyes

Holding words that feels like knives

I needed to find my own self

Even if the ocean wanted to overpower me

One minute I'm floating

The next minute I'm inside my own darkness

Crouching down to admire my own body

The way sensations strike the truth

Before the mind can even shut down the fire