Elijah Reed Poems

Last night I had a dream I came face to face with my depression.
He’s not a nice guy, he lives alone, and always feeding off of my aggression.
I dreamed that we were high, standing on a cloud prosession.
We sat and talked, he told me all about the things I hated
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My emotions, they control my ways
and all of what they make leaves me out of it for days.
I wish they were like books, I'd read them all to myself
and when I reach a bad one, stick it in the back of the shelf.
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I can't sleep and I'm clueless why
when every time I hope and try
to catch a few winks
with this burn, it stinks
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Tears like rain as i feel
all of this pain makeing my heart peel.
You enter my day, my emotions whirl
only to find you caught in turmoil.
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As of now I'm through with all my being
Because the coward that I've made myself wants to end all that he's seeing
the torture that I put myself through just to care for a single person
the only one who wishes my situation will not further worsen
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I'm sitting here, thinking clear
Remember what I greatly fear.
Of causing her to drop a tear
From things I say while drinking beer.
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Locked into your emotional prison cell,
With bars constructed from old abuse of alcohol.
Chains made of past emotions and regret,
You're put away until you can forget it all.
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