Eyelids shut
Mouth a line
Hair a wreck
Thrown all about
Fingers buried in wild hair
And supporting the head
Tears streak down
But they don't notice
Muttering breaks silence
Too incoherent to understand
Shaking breaths disturb the air
Clothes are messy
And shoelaces untied
An unfinished letter is crumpled on the ground
"... will you forget to watch me from above?"
This figure drowning in cloth is the definition of a mess