Three Parts Winged Poem by Lidia Running

Step One: Butterfly

Words louder
Rip the air
Fall apart
Watch them stare

Swirling madness
‘Round and ‘round
Three more pills
To swallow down

It’s supposed to be better
I’m supposed to be fine
But what I’m doing
Must be a sign

Losing control
What did I say
I can’t remember
Myself today

Pick me apart
I cannot see
What you’re trying
To do to me

Step on a crack
To break my back
I cannot suffer
More attack

Red light, green light
One more fight
Before I disappear
To madness’ night

Step Two: Raven

Drowning under
Water’s weight
No sight, no sound
Midnight fate

Cannot breathe
Lungs collapse
Gone to seek
A great perhaps

Coma child
Will not talk
Paralyzed
Cannot walk

Eyes are tired
Broken bones
Can’t I just
Be left alone

Digging deeper
Hide it away
Razor blade
Makes wrist filet

I just want to be fine
Take back what was mine
Give myself a heart, a soul
Just get back under control

Flying faster through the pain
Just about drove me insane
More than I was, anyway
Don’t you have something to say?

Step Three: Angel

It’s not so bad
If you just fall
It’s not so hard
To heed the call

Looking up
Instead of down
Is so much easier
But you just frown

Now I have
To save twice
My failed self
Cannot suffice

Take one with me
To the sky
One who says
They want to die

Show the meaning
Of heaven on earth
Angel walking
Soul rebirth

Take a soul and set it free
The way I’d like to be
Not doomed to forever see
Everyone get saved but me

Took my heart and ripped it out
Just what love is all about