cut the cord

Photo by Claudia Wolff on Unsplash

i need to be held

………no one here to hold me

i want to cry

………no one here to care

every nerve pulsating with depression

………no one here to trouble

thought-forms race ‘round my head

………slash my wrists

leave my body

………cut the cord and float away

i am tired

………so very tired

Lon Casler Bixby is a professional photographer and published author in various genres: Fiction, Poetry, Humor, Photography, & Comic Books.

You can see some of his photography here — www.whileyouweresleeping.photography/ and here — www.neoichi.com/.

See his writing here — www.amazon.com/author/loncaslerbixby/.

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