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#JUMBLE TONGUE -- 3rd installment complete with a Prize! The topic is "death" which means spiritual or physical "death" in the most creative and abstract play of words you can think of. Could be an act that results in death, the aftermath of death, or the essence of death, a Eulogy for the dead etc. Writer's choice. "Best" piece chosen by a 3 judge panel of myself and 2 others. Winner gets a custom ready-to-hang 16"x20" canvas with their jumble on it! (Feel free to inquire for details.)
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LuvUrself509 in Poetry & Free Verse

No Escape.

I'm a prisoner of sadness trapped in my own head, and I'm held hostage by these thoughts as they are slaves of my depression.

I slam into the bars of my cage in an attempt to escape my end, but the bars left bruises on my shoulders and my eyes filled with tears.

I pretended to believe that I could get out alive and now I know that these thoughts are going to kill me and there's nothing I can do.

There is no escape.

My sorrows weighted me down and down, deeper until the bars of my cage were no longer visible and I gave in to the dark nothingness. Though it was dark and cold, it held me tight until I was so cold it burned.

I felt a comfort as if the darkness was my family and this place was my home.

Then came the water that started to fill the cold, damp home I had taken refuge in.

It crawled up my body as cold as ice. I did not move.

It came up to my face and I watched it close over my head. Still, I did not move.

Death was inviting, like an old friend.

And that was the end of the girl I thought I could become.

That was the end of The Future Me.