elephants failing
to be completely honest
i don’t want to be alive
nothing makes sense anymore and
everything hurts
and it used to hurt so much less
but now it just hurts so much more
blinking my eyes requires
so much more energy
from when i was nine and happy
skipping around the park
with my mom’s hand slipped into my
chubby fingers.
taking a step is like lifting
a thousand elephants
inhaling like fighting gravity
exhaling, atlas letting down the sky
stars like to shine on me
i wish they wouldn’t
im not worth shining for,
if im just going to leave anyway
someone says they’re worried about me
i don’t bother to open the text
or see who it’s from
it doesn’t matter
i’m not going to be around much longer
then they won’t have anything
to worry about
sometimes
i stare at the bottle of pain pills
in my medicine cabinet
i contemplate what would happen if
i took them
one by one by one
until the world fell apart
it would be good
i think
i take a pause
i reach in.
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PersonalThemeAbstract
Deeply personal, autobiographical suicidal ideation and depression narrative
SparseMeasureDense
Moderate density; contemplative pacing with clusters of interconnected dark ideas
DarkSentimentBright
Strongly negative; hopelessness, pain, suicidal ideation throughout
StillEnergyExplosive
Tense undercurrent beneath quiet delivery; explosive subject matter, restrained voice
MicroLengthEpic
54 lines; falls in 31-60 range
PlainFigurativeOrnamented
Rich metaphors (elephants, atlas, gravity); similes; personification (stars); high ornamentation
LyricVoiceDramatic
Pure lyric internal voice; no narrative distance or dramatic personas
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