Screams From My Mind

Feeling so helpless, just sitting here. Watching you fade away.

Kicking and screaming in my mind, not knowing when to quit.

Trying to keep you fighting, but finding my hands are tied.

 

Wanting to run away and hide, I can't help pulling closer.

So many years have been wasted, with fights that no one won.

Does time have to fly so fast? My heart can only cry.

 

Dreaming of good times, that may never happen.

Clinging so tightly to those that do.

Living for every smile, Fighting away the tears.

My soul is shaking.

 

Stuck between wanting to live every moment, as quickly as I can.

In hopes that life will be all lived, before you go away,

And fearing the changes, that living will bring.

It's too soon to have to live,

Without you.

 

I want to cry, I try to scream, why can't life be fair?

There's too many things, you never taught me, so much we never did.

It took too long, for you to like me. Even longer for you to love me.

It isn't fair.

 

You remember a past I'll never know, we're stuck in a time you don't understand.

I dread a future without you, and fear the future with you.

 

We can't go back, time won't stop, it doesn't even stand still.

Right now is all I know you have, as I watch you fade away.

My mind starts screaming.

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this sometime in 2010 for my mom who was at the time nearing the end of her battle with Huntington's Disease. I would have loved for this to be read at her memorial service, but I couldn't find it at the time.

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