Untitled (Life Sucks)
I’m so tired of treading water,
Choking on life’s little bubbles
As tidal wave after tidal wave
Knock me down
Robbing the air right from out of my lungs
Nothing I do
Success is a joke
Beginning with knock knock
While sharks nibble at my toes
And all i can do is cry between
Bursts of energy
I’m drowning here
With no one to save me
The pain overwhelms me
If only
I would’ve known
Years ago
To yell “man overboard” when I felt that heave from society
As it tossed my beaten and bruised brown body
Into the icy waters of hopelessness