Kat's Poetry Pile

restless apathy

restless
i can't
back again
same building
same college

same room
emptied out
desolate
i lie awake
i can't sleep

but im so tired
i earned my rest
but there's an
ever present dagger
above my head

its so empty
i can't think
in the emptyness
i miss my friends
fill the void

with carnal pleasures
home-cooked foods
i wake up feeling worse
i cry harder after they leave
and i can't stop

homogenized feelings
i can't tell if im crying
or in an agonizing physical arousal
so overwhelmed
yet numb all the same

//

i feel myself spiraling into
oblivion

a life without purpose
but i have tasks to do
and i can't even have fun

anymore
the joy is ephemeral at best
and absent at worse
car-centric nightmare
where i become sedentary

apathetic
doomscroll
slopmaxxing
a hedonistic life
of emptyness

physically full
emotionally hollowed out
chasing a feeling
that i've lost
that i so desperately wish to have

no-one to love
the people are gone
but the feelings linger
i want someone
anyone really

temporary friends with benefits
only hurt more when they leave
knowing full well i'm probably never
seeing them again
without some good planning

//

people hear me crying
asking if im okay
and i'm simply not okay
maybe i shouldn't have broken up with him
but i don't know if its the emptiness

that's hurting me
or being so incredibly touch starved
crying myself to sleep
more often than not
instead of heartache

a deep melancholy
but not the kind
that drags me into oblivion
but the apathetic kind
where i simply can't

do anything
learned helplessness
maintaining myself
becomes harder and harder
with every step

im not productive
because i'm crying
and trying my absolute
darndest to numb the pain

that comes with being alone

maybe a good ending
soon i will move out
return home to a different
hellish environment
isolated from all those i was close to

an unceasing, restless apathy