A child trapped in the night
Stopped breathing, expressionless.
「There’s nothing we can do about any of this!
We’re drowning in a world we can’t change.
open your eyes
The shadows sink. But no matter how it seems right now, this is reality.
What is freedom?
I selfishly hoped
That the pain you gave to me might be love.
I have no need
For this Schadenfreude that keeps me down.
I’ve grown tired of its heavy-handed drama
And discord aesthetic.
How long can you keep saying
That things are unfair, or “hopeless”?
How much giving up until you’re satisfied?
It’s laughable.
Even broken, I live on. My ending credit roll betrays all expectation.
With a heart that’s been broken again and again, I keep on.
Each time I breathe, my body continues to rust.
I need only accept the parts of me that fall away as I fight on.」
Her face unresponsive to her elegy,
She starts breathing, in the dead of night.