Why Do I Wait

My time’s too short

My dreams fly by

My body’s a fort

I sit in and die

I lay here in shame

Watching day after day

As time, my life, slowly drifts away

Why do I wait?

Why must I stay confined inside and die

It’s like I don’t even try

To live, rewrite, revitalize my breaking life

It’s pathetic

How easily I give up when the going gets tough

Why do I wait?

Why do I sleep?

Burying my feelings deep inside

Letting them starve

Letting them die

Watching them fall

And wither at my feet

Why do I wait?

Why did I give up the fight?

My right to life

Why do I sit back and go numb?

Somewhere I must have decided “I’m done”

I decided to wait

Not today

I’m done again

It’s time to change

I’m done being the same

I’m done wasting away

Why did I wait?