Laying alone in bed
A voice suddenly speaks
Listening to every word said
Commanding you to expose your emotional leaks
The unknown voice speaks the truth
Impossible to ignore, painful to hear
The meaning as painful as a broken tooth
A lonely life revealed by a single fallen tear
It says the curse of a life lived alone
Is the reality of never being missed
It demands you shut up, don't moan
It shows on the flesh of the world, you are just a cyst
Better to end it all it will say
To send out all guilt in a funerary pyre
It tells you only the living will pay
So listen to death's desire.
©Josh West
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