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Celestina

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

35 poems·Since June 2013
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Cliff

June 9, 2013
A mental breakdown is like a crack in the walls of the universe A quickly expanding hole That you didn't realize was there Until you felt the draft You felt the pain of the widening gap And found yourself standing before a chasm A bottomless pit In which you can see no chance of escaping With your back against the cliff face Hoping for a hand up Hoping not to have to jump Hoping to survive the fall...
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