Words like white noise
run from

ear to ear,

they crawl with

no direction, no fear

 

Eyes black,

sharpened at the edges,

scream stories of hopelessness,
walking off ledges

 

Bags dotted blue

sink deeper

by the day,

hair grows thinner,
roots turn grey

 

Don’t tell me what it feels like
to stare death in the eye,

I see him every day

you pass by