The Lucky One

I just fall apart

Watch it all collapse

Crumbling

Burning down

Ashes overhead

Hurting lungs

Hardly breathing

But still crying out

Wishing I could help

Knowing suffocation

This echo location

But you just don't hear

Burnt by this toxicity

Only want to set you free

But cut off and

Cut out of the running

You travel like a ghost

Through these hallowed veins

I long to lift you up

Into the light you crave

Sunset over and over again

Locked out

Eden abandoned

But never forbidden

Guileless and honest

Seeking your guidance

Whether lost or found

I just need answers

I just need to breathe

Speak to me

Through brittle branches

And fables

Fabricating a reason

To remain here anchored

In seas I've all but cursed

Ships I should abandon

I've already got a lung full

But I'd give up all the oxygen

You've already forced the air out

I'm gasping now

In fickle waters

A false faith kept

In closeted prayers

A treasured chest

A failing question

Voices fading

Fishing, waiting

Hoping, praying

In offered hands

Made to be idle

Still making stands

Ready to fire

A weapon wound

And neatly forgotten

A passion bound

And surreptitiously ignored

But in this tired plea

I wish upon the billionth star

Banking on just you

To turn out to be the lucky one

And for me to fall apart

Watch it coalesce

Building up

To happiness

The Lucky One

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