Than to live this life as it is
To see suffering all around
With no eyelids in pain
Speed run through the stages of grieve
In one 45 minute commute
Parents ununderstanding
Mother unempathising
Lip service
Shallow words
They call autism an affliction
Like an Victorian dame with the consumption
They don't get it
They never will
But some days I hope
And then after I hurt
I rarely hope
but at the times I do
When it dies I hurt
And I grieve through and through
The knife holds temptation
To make my pain visual
Red, the colour of blood
Cherries ripened by despair
Lost. Loss. Lose the hope
I don't want it why bother
It heralds despair
Depression
Sadness at disconnection
Cut
Pain
Want
Hurt
Blood
Must not
Will not
Why why why does the psyche create hope
Hope always dies, pain always follows
Death
Sweet death
I yearn for thee
Silence at last
Please come for me
Take me to the silence
Where I won't be tortured by hope