Trapped By The Memory Of You Poem by Evageline Echo

I wish you would stop haunting me
Get out of my head, please.
I can't take much more of this torment
You are slowly killing me from the inside.

No matter how I try, I cannot get away from you
You are a constant presence in my thoughts
Almost always there, just under the surface
In some moments I get a sweet release
But then you are back again
I'm a prisoner in my own mind
How can I break out of a jail that I cannot see
Cannot touch
No bars I can saw through
No building I can burn down.

I feel like Atlas
Struggling under the weight of your strength
Barely able to stand, to breathe, to keep going
I want to let go and have you collapse over me
Be buried underneath the rubble that is you
To enjoy the darkness, the peace, the quiet
How I pray for this, at any cost.

But peace, quiet, sleep will not come to me
There is no place I can go to escape
Because my prison is inside me
Because I carry you within me
I cannot let you slip out of my thoughts
And so,
You will never release me.