Fading Away

 Everything

is diminishing

I feel like I

am finishing

I am fading

in this life

I am fading

drowning in strife

my spine is slowly collapsing

and no help is on the way

the only help can come with means

I don't have, so there's no way

No way out of my weakening body

as I struggle through each day

giving up the modeling contract

and crying all the way

through every word I type on the page

"I can't, I'm sorry" I say

I can't have a life this way

giving up what I love

with no way to be paid

how can I sustain

and fight this pain

there's no way

I'm fading away 

Scarlit-Rose Ashcraft (formerly Rose Guedes)

Dec. 13, 2021