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My mind unwinds with every

tick or tock in my head

that I ignore to

greet the floorboards

and embrace the emptiness instead.

Crawl into myself,

sanity comes like lightning:

   bright and brief

and back to the darkness is frightening

Bury the emotions

and choke on every heartbeat.

Succumb to the walls

that build themselves higher,

like my arms that raise in defeat.

Lock my head up,

the silence is deafening.

Open my heart out,
the pain is never-ending.

Wasting time,

to fight what can’t be seen.

Surrendered to the darkness:

safe, secret, and unclean.

Rather to know nothing,

than to know what I have done here.
My knowledge is not power,

but deep, purpled fear.