Open Wounds | Adeela Ejaz

Open wounds

It's like the wounds will never heal

Because I won't allow them to. 

Every little while I seem to go back to that place I've tried so hard to escape from. 

The same darkness creeps upon me at my weakest moments. 

I try. 

I try so hard to not surrender my tiny bit of light. 

But I know I'm not strong enough. 

It feels like I'm drowning again.

Down to the shadows where it's so hard to see, 

To feel,

To breathe. 

I try to remember good and the magical

But sometimes it wins. 

And I'm stuck again. 

Unable to escape. 

Unable to breathe. 

- Adeela Ejaz

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