The Turn-Tale Heart

I’m stuck.

I’m stuck.

I’m stuck.

I hear your heartbeat from under the floorboards
Tormenting me in my sleep and in my wake.

It’s not real,
I know it’s in my head
Because I am alive and breathing,
And you are not.

Get out.

Get out.

GET OUT.

It’s daytime, you don’t belong here,
So why do I hear you now –
When the sun is out?

You have no home here.

You abandoned me.

And now you haunt me.

I feel the pulse of your heart on the train
And hear it aloud even when I have company.

Why can’t I get out of my head?

The silent screams in the night,
The thud from under the floorboards,
The cold memory of you;
Somehow it feels real.

It’s all in my head.

It’s all in my head.

It’s not in my head.

How then do I live with this…
Madness that consumes me so?

Just one taste is enough to fuel the fire,
I just need to make it stop –
I just need to tear my heart out.

To stop.

To stop.

Stop.

*chuckle*

My head feels so clear without it there.

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