xCrankx

xCrankx

 

Flying high has a price,

plunging, screaming, agonizing

        xcrashesx

that make you want

to tear the flesh from your bones

using only broken teeth and dull, ragged nails

if only it would stop that hideous pain.

        xit won'tx

hours and hours of wide-open eyes,

too terrified, too painful to sleep.

        xsuddenlyx

it all gives way to what we call

death's little sister

and everyone almost believes the lie

your body tells

for you sleep as if you were

        xdeadx

5 hours gone,

10.

15 hours gone,

a day or three

and suddenly you are "alive" again

x...if this is what you call living...x