Poem - Already Dead

Lonely and hurt, 

Broken I remain

Residing in hell,

living in pain

Masked by lies, 

I slowly fade away;

The nightmare I live with, 

each and every day

The meaning of it all, 

to which my mind attends

Has not one answer

that I fully comprehend

The bottom of my mind 

holds the answers which I call;

I keep reaching towards it 

in this never-ending fall

"Stay strong and keep going, 

it's never too late"...

No one seems to realize 

that it's not worth the wait

There's no such thing 

as help outside of your mind,

It's you against yourself, 

with your demons intertwined

It's a battle, hard fought,

but never to be won...

Either way you end up losing 

when it's all said and done

"Too late" came and passed

and, of me, nothing more

I wrote my own ending, 

and I shut my own door

"Live your life to its fullest"

that's what they all said,

But what's the point in trying 

when you're already dead?