One More Night

It’s been a long day

and nothing has changed again.

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Time passed,

feelings stayed silent,

crushed by disappointment,

clinging onto nothing.

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Close the blinds

and wall yourself away

(or stagger through streets

and fear for your life.)

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Ingest the pills,

which do nothing,

and struggle to breathe,

alone again.

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The grease on your sheets

sticks to your skin.

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The drains outside gurgle.

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And there’s

the smell of nearby

burning bins.

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It was you who signed this contract.

It is you who stays here now,

in the land where time passes

but there are no changes.