pulling me under

(poems go here) her thoughts are slowly eating her alive like corpses rising up with dirt under their nails scratching the surface but not breaking the skin her daydreams try to lift her up but there are weights keeping her down she is tugged at the strings but pulled to the earth she tries to fly away but she is too heavy and there are monsters pulling her down the earth swallows her whole and dreams try to lift her towards the sunlight but the corpses of the past with the rotting bone pull her down because she can not let go and they will not free their grasps their grip is too strong and the day dreams are too far just out of reach her fingertips brush the sunlight as the corpses dig in their nails breaking the flesh pulling her under down down as the earth swallows her whole