Why is it that every morning I wake up with this feeling like I’m not worth anyone’s time.
I spend hour after hour trying to build myself up by putting on this cheery facade and smiling like I have never smiled before,
But whenever my bedroom door closes I’m submerged in thoughts so cold and they cut so damned deep that I am left going down with my Titanic ego
Which I rip to shreds before I go to bed only to wake up in the morning to piece whatever I can find back together again
I’ve got paper thin pride, and my self esteem rests at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
I no longer cry myself to sleep because I’ve abandoned the hope that one day I would dawn armor so shiny that my insecurities can no longer stab at me.
I realized there aren’t dragons to be fought out there to save a princess.
There are only demons inside me which have my soul, so I’m left this barren empty vessel clinging to the remnants of love.
Every now and then I can feel my sanity slipping away.
I can feel myself becoming that which I once feared but have come to admire;
A being without feelings.
Every single time I feel myself stepping towards the void which will store my emotions in a jar alongside my abyssal self esteem
Far away so that no one can touch it or hurt it in any way
Every day that this dilemma occurs I think of her
This ephemeral and radiant being which I keep on seeing when I close my eyes
And I deny my demons their victory.
I shine with the hope that this piece of love that I’m clinging onto in this ocean of insecurity will wash me onto the sandy shores of my paradise here on earth;
Your arms, where I will dwell with leprechauns and unicorns because then I would know that dreams and fantasies can be made real.
Every night after I’m left cut up and bare I think of the love that could be shared
And I walk through my days searching out your mesmerizing gaze