Despair - Poem

Poem by Ankush - Luvv It

What is it

That makes you breathe in?

Is it your lungs?

Your nose?

Or something older

A need buried deeper than instinct

An addiction

To taking in

A dose of the air,

A dose of oxygen?

What is it

That makes you need it?

Is it the body?

The heart?

Or just the cells

Blindly spinning energy

From whatever they’re given?

What is it

That needs that energy?

Your brain?

Your muscles?

Or your consciousness

Trying to hold

The pieces from falling apart?

What is it

That makes consciousness survive?

Is it the body?

The heart?

Or is it hope

That thin thread

Pulling you forward

Even when everything else lets go?

What is it

That makes you hope?

Is it memory?

Is it a lie?

Or something softer

Something that refuses

To die

Even when you do?

Did you feel it?

That quiet void in your chest

Pulling everything inward

Until even the ache disappears.

It doesn’t scream.

It doesn’t bleed.

It just swallows

Hope first,

Then warmth,

Then light,

Then you.

Until all that’s left

Is the silence

Where you used to be.

-Ankush Anand

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