I Want To Be

I want to be

somewhere far from here

From me

Somewhere else 

Somebody different 

In the distance 

I want to cut the strings

Undo the binding 

Shed the tired burden of my skin

Leave everything behind 

Wash my soul 

Slough the grit 

I don’t need this shit

I don’t want to be me 

I don’t want to be here 

Nothing ever happens 

For the good 

Pain rides this darkness 

Squeezes its knees 

Into my cracked ribs 

Urges me into the pit

Safe from success 

Protected from love 

Breathing toxic air 

Until it ends 

I can’t be 

Years from now 

I have to be yesterday 

I need to be gone 

Already a shadow 

So nearly a ghost 

Here, hold this...