life,
brutal your crush
so from you
I fade

with breath of
anguish
I disobey

herein lies
my final
goodbye

gone soon dead-ends
that makeup day
no more your days
that crush away
illusions of hope

salvation awaits
in sips of sleep

to refuge of gray
slowly I slip
far
from you

the whole of me
peacefully
eternally
falls

away

unlike you
of myself
I will not crush

with leniency
I simply
cease

as from you
blithely

I fade



-Kalynn Campbell