Alone Poem by Lauren C

Poisoned dead butterflies
Fluttering in the pit of your stomach
Weighing you down
Until darkness becomes all you know
All you can feel
Shallow breaths
The reason you can no longer see yourself in the mirror
The fog masking the hurt and pain you're not ready to face
Because facing it means clearing away the debris from the war that this caused
And realizing that you can't find any part of the person you used to be
Your heart now a wasteland
Contaminated with the toxic radiation from heartbreaks and loss
Embracing emptiness as if it is your teddy bear on a dark stormy night
The only thing you have left
So you wrap yourself in it
Let it consume you
And your body becomes a prison holding your dreams and ambitions hostage
The world, an empty place of endless roads and broken spirits
Your reflection is no longer yours
It belongs to emptiness now
And there is no deal you can negotiate to convince her to return it to you
So you find yourself searching for something that feels real
In the magic show that is your life
But there isn't anything but rooms full of mirrors
That force you to look into the darkness
And realize that there isn't a light at the end of your tunnel
And you are truly alone