Plastic Gold / by Elianna wambui kagai / original poems

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Summary

I had a mental breakdown so I wrote this poem expressing my materialistic desires depleting me and the consequences of overachieving. Read if you dare … 😏

Status
Complete
Chapters
1
Rating
4.0 1 review
Age Rating
13+

Chapter 1

I see my achievements on the wall

Plastic lungs of acdedamia

Trophies galore

Medals that shimmered like the moon

Crowded the walls

Paper lined with numbers high

Business after business after business

They fly

And I feel empty

I feel nothingness clothe me ,

I sleep in a room of plastic gold

I feel empty ,

I’ve done it all and nothing at all,

I feel empty ,

My tears rusting with the metal crowns,

On the walls ,

Even this poem shall decay, die and rot ,

And in the end I will just empty,