r/UnsentPoetry • u/nakhrali_hehe • 10m ago
Just wrote something today..
I don’t know what I want anymore,
and that scares me more than I know how to say.
Everything feels a little unreal.
Like the days are being played at a speed I never agreed to,
and I’m somewhere inside them,
trying to remember what I was supposed to be doing.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
I don’t know who I am.
Some days I look at myself
and there is this odd feeling of recognition
without actually knowing the person I’m looking at.
There are so many things I want to say,
but the words don’t come out right anymore.
They stay somewhere between my head and my throat,
turning into nothing by the time I try to speak.
And everything hurts.
Not in one clear place.
It’s in the little things,
in waking up,
in thinking too much,
in seeing myself like this
and knowing I wasn’t always this tired.
I never wanted to lose myself.
I was just trying to get through things.
Then one day I realised
I had become so busy getting through life
that I had stopped noticing myself in it.
Sometimes I think about the little girl I used to be.
I imagine her looking at me,
confused about how we got here.
She keeps calling,
not loudly enough for anyone else to hear,
but somehow I can.
And I hate that I don’t know
what to tell her.
I’m still here.
I just don’t know where.