The only thing hurting my heart right now

Is you and your reptilian breath

Pressing down on me like water pressure

Too heavy to push away

Too sharp to breath through

My chest heaves

My lungs scream

Everything you’ve ever said is leaning down on me

My ribs will explode

My heart will implode

Because I can’t get you off my chest

Because you’re heavier than the rest

Because if I ever let this pain go, it would feel like death

Because I don’t pop pills and I don’t smoke weed

But I swear pain is a drug I have to breath

Because if my life is not miserable

Then is it my life at all?

So I can’t get you off my chest

Because I’m not really trying to

I’ll let my lungs give out

If being in pain is the last thing I do