Weltschmerz II

slow dancing while the world reels at full speed

i haven’t grieved my past lives
they died before i could make it out here
in this empty field full of glass
the mist suffocating tendrils of you


i am shattered in ways that don’t make sense
i never fully formed, i’ve always been suspended in air
from the moment i was born i was the unknown 
placeless, graceless


emptiness has always loved me 
i held a hollowness close to my chest like a friend
i’ve always been fragile, transparent 
slow dancing while the world reels at full speed


the first memory is the one that haunts me 
a door shut while i heard screaming
i knew then i would always be alone 
despite all the love inside me 
i would never be let out of the dark room