I see them smile

Scream

Laugh

Cry

They walk down the boulevard

Hold hands

Then use them to spread hatred

Hostility 

Revulsion

Would you want to love?

Would you give your life for someone?

Would you want to give someone your life?

Maybe yes, maybe no

Love lights up the darkness in lamp posts

When children sleeps and the deeds are done

But in the daytime love washes away like the tides in San Diego or Barcelona

rolling downhill

Catching grass in your clothes

But the grass gets longer and never goes away

The grass buries you until you can’t breathe

But you’ve loved it since you were a child

Could you still love when you cry like a baby

Fight like dogs

Scream like world wars 

Hate like enemies

The cloud brings darkness, gloomy days come

Mist hovers over the barren streets like debri from gunshots

Plants rot and die

Through the mist seduces another

Loves another

Smile at each other like it is the last chance they will get

Watching the eyes gleam at each other like you used to

Now your eyes gleam with sorrow

You fall face down into the abyss of despair

Can you force the sun to shine in a thunderstorm of your cries?

It will promise brighter days ahead

Promise happiness

Promise love

But you sacrifice yourself into the storm for a rainbow

The mist covers you

Breathe it in and taste it mask your happiness

Let it run through your veins with life

Circulate your wrists while it hisses

Screaming for more fuel

It slithers throughout you

It burns brighter than a mid-July bonfire

Will you feed it’s never-ending hunger?

Or will you live?

Every time the light sheds upon you it howls;

Streams of light spot the clouds as it barrels in,

Killing everything engulfed in mist and giving it life.

The light is near.

You could grab it

But the mist screams

smolders your neck 

bites your wrists

It shakes the pill bottles tormenting you from your counter

“Light is death,” it whispers in your ear

But the mist will kill you either way

You clutch the sunlight peeking through

The boulders on your ankles are crack and crumble

You scream like a child stolen from their mother

he malignant eyes pierce through your body

You betrayed them

But they betrayed you

You ascend further into the light

The deep scars on your wrist fade with the mist

The pills plummet out of your pocket onto the dry ground

The gun on your bedside table disintegrates 

Light trickles down your back

Do you trust the light?

It forces your mouth open, clutching you within its grasp

The blinding light conceals your vision

You’re dumped back into reality

No scars or razors

You see them smile

So you smile back