10:01 pm

It sits on your chest, heavy and crushing. Sometimes you can’t breathe against it. It’s all running through your head.

Chances.

Mistakes.

And you’ll wonder if you’re doomed to repeat them.

(Sometimes you will)

11:43 pm

It will tear you up, all this pain. You’ll lose yourself in distractions. Half promises. Maybe a person who is an addiction you can’t shake. That’s alright. You can take your time.

12:10 am

You have a lot of dreams on one shoulder and expectations on the other. It gives you blisters that go deeper than skin.

(It shouldn’t matter you know. What anyone else wants from you)

12:15 am

Hope is a forbidden fruit.  

But fragile.

It will crack a few times as you learn to be human.

(Don’t lose it)

2:25am

I’ve got a wall of memories, not all of them good.  Picture after picture, and it will make you think;

All the people you’ve been, which one is you?

5:30am

You’re going to be sad. You’re going to be excited, in love, disappointed, terrified. Through it all, try to be happy.

Always try be happy. 

Poem #60 // L.H.Z  / Published in Insomnia Get the ebook or print here.