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Selfish


To swallow the pills would be selfish

To slit your wrists would be selfish

To end you life would be selfish

 

But they don't know

The thoughts that suffocate you

The words that swallow you whole
 

How sweet the taste of oblivion would be

To close your eyes and sulk in nothingness

For the world to end


 

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