Christina Sprague
2 min readMar 19, 2022

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Chasing the stars to stop the day
But when I look up they’re already gone
I feel like I’ve been through a hurricane
While a volcano erupts
Even though it’s a small mountain
It’s all up hill
The battles may come and go
But the war seems to go forever
All of the fighting is neverending
The pain just comes back
The figure that comes out of my head
I see him staring
As if he’s ripping out my soul
But he looks so real
No matter the times I tell myself the truth
The sun has gone
But so have the stars
The moon is new in total darkness
I want to change these thoughts
To change what I’m looking at
But these daydreams make it hard to focus
These thoughts are draining
Telling me to fight against myself
But I keep failing and losing
Manifesting the things that I wish to be
That I wish to do
Counting on the hope of a miracle
But the things inside are screaming
Everything is pounding
I just want the stars to stay with me
The figure to disappear
But absolute fear hits
And I can’t imagine it gone
I know it’s in my head
But its voice is overpowering mine
It’s instilling this fear
I know many see it
But the figure is still
The stars are back for now
But it’s still there
It still stares into me
It still berades me
Everything I do is wrong
Nothing I think is the right thing
I’m hiding from it
But it finds me every time
It makes me believe the lies it tells
And it’s there
It’s always there
Even when the stars are out
No matter where they are
It’s always closer

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Christina Sprague

Mental health is important. Lover of family, animals, and writing poetry.