Scrambled Signals

It’s like the more I get to know myself

The more I realize I’m delusional

When half my thoughts are scrambled signals

It’s torture just to ■■■■■■■ meet you

And not because I really want it to, be

But paranoia starts to haunt you, see

Taking over when I’m not watchin’

Cause staying stable is so exhausting

I’m not tryna be rude

when I walk away

I’m just scared that YOU might see

I’m not okay

I cry over the reasons that I have to stay

Because waves are crashing in on me every day and I’m drowning

but the medicine the medicine they gave

To my frightened abstract mind

Just amplifies the flashing lights

So when I tell you that

I’m just fine

Know that I mean

not to waste your time

Cause each mountain I climb

Gets higher when I reach the top

I love you so much that

I wish you forgot

The years that we’ve spent together

It would all be easier if I ran off

and just got lost

I wish that I could promise you I’m safe

but I’m just not

Feels like the more I get to know someone

The more I run from the confusion

When half my thoughts are scrambled signals

It feels like war just trying to mingle

And not because I’m not so lonely

Because the hold inside my hearts a cave

But being alone is the only way that I

Can cope with being awake

Fear and loathing leaves me rotten

Cause trying to trust you’s so exhausting

Not tryna be rude when I don’t say a word

I’m just scared cause It always ends with me hurting

I dream of drifting through a black abyss

Cause being awake means feeling this

You keep me tethered to the vessel that drags me through the day

But love is not enough to take the pain inside away

Don’t say a word it’s all okay

Today is just another day

So when I tell you that

I’m just fine

Know that I mean

not to waste your time

Cause each mountain I climb

Gets higher when I reach the top

I love you so much that

I wish you forgot

The years that we’ve spent together

It would all be easier if I ran off

and just got lost

I wish that I could promise you I’m safe

but I’m just not.

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Hi, welcome to the forum! May I move this poem to the creativity section for you? That way, more people will be able to see it.

I like this. Are they words to a song? Do the words have a melody.

Actually I had placed it here intentionally as a conversation starter rather than a display piece as it may have been viewed under that category. Perhaps I was out of line, if you feel the need to relocate it I’d understand. Thank you for the welcome!

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Yes I wrote it as a song. Started singing through tears and just had to start writing it down.

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You’re welcome to leave it here! I like it.

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