Falling Poem by Octavious Harper

Lately, I've been falling into a pit of
sadness and shame, wondering if my
life will really ever be the same, cursed
with the extreme emotion that I cover
with my mask, feelings unseen so people
just pass, pain unhealed can drive you
insane, the feelings can hurt so let me
explain.

When your falling it's a state of mind
that cannot be met, impossible to
understand so don't get upset, a
endless pit of darkness into the murky
abyss, impossible to measure even
deeper than this.

Which is why it's so hard to relieve
this stress, a major migraine that is
starting to compress… my brain that's
really starting to make me insane, I
feel like my blood pressures taking off
like a plane.

But then I slow it down to stop the
massacre of heart, wishing I could
stop my feelings right from the start,
so then I write my pain down part by
part, and now I wrote it on paper and
I turned it to art.

Now, relieved of the stress that compress
my brain, feelings are gone, because I
feel no pain, feeling as free as a mornings
rain, sadness now gone with the whole
world to gain.