Slip Away

Just a little word

before you walk away again

and leave me here

with only the walls to talk to

as I bleed myself dry

onto these metaphorical pages

like shouting into a vacuum

no one’s really listening

reaching out so desperately

for acknowledgement and connection

but the lines are down

no one’s at the other end

to give a damn

everyone has a life to lead

and maybe if we led them

a little more together

no one would have to feel alone

adriift in a sea of endless isolation

but here I am

tilting at the windmills again

just call me Don Quixote

and let me argue with these four walls

maybe the drywall will understand

as this time

instead of grasping

at the last shreds of sanity

I let it and them just slip away

and fall into the breakdown

maybe there will be someone there

to catch me as I fall apart…