Free
When I lay down to sleep at night
An evil thought goes through my head
I think about the fight we had
When you told

Cursed

I do believe I have a curse
It has been around since before my birth
And believe you me, nothing is worse
Than this big

How does life exist outside my window?
And how does my breath no longer know
The danger of solitude?
I sit alone in this sometimes

I'm sitting on my porch steps with the urge to cry-
waiting for the phone to ring, ready to die.
The stomach tosses and turns

Where is this place called Dignity

Where is this place called dignity?
There was a time I thought I knew
with certainty,
yet