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The Dark Corner of My Room - By: Nelum P.

What is this, this feeling

It makes no sense, this feeling.

I feel as though I am watching

Myself from outside my body.


Why am I in constant battle

With myself, in a war

That I’m on the losing side of?


The outside world is so full

Of sunshine and breeze.

So why does it hurt

As I sit inside and remind myself

That I can breathe?


What is that feeling,

Knowing the Earth is turning,

Knowing people keep living,

Always hearing the birds singing.


That there is no difference

Outside this dark corner of my room

Where light surpasses my soul

Into a black hole in my mind.


What is that feeling?

Where it is impossible

To keep turning,

To be one of the living.

To hate the bird singing.


I know it now

And forever, as it will come to be.

It is the feeling

That keeps me here.

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