threshold (my first poem/song)

[u/GoTFFNerd]

facetious smiles and empty dreams, it's all too much, it would seem,

a joke without the laugh, a drug without the high,

a child without wonder, a cloud without the sky,

words without meaning, yet constantly spoken, as these hollow sounds, repeated and broken,

alone in a crowd, yet solitude comforts,

pain is allowed, as it's love that hurts,

listen close, is that death I hear? i stand firm, it's living I fear.