They are often less than a minor inconvenience.
I wipe them from my brow like sweat. Pluck them from my head like stray hairs. Toss them to the corners of my room.
The more persistent may take hold of my nerves.
I conjure imaginary fire to burn them away. Lock them and boxes and toss them from my window. Slap them from my skin like pesky bugs.
Only active movement can banish them. It's a temporary fix though. They still inch into my head waiting to pounce on me with violent scenes and repulsive images.
My thoughts aren't always my own, but my actions are.
That sobering moment when you are brushed by death. Only by proxy; a tragedy twice removed.
But you see different, taste different, feel different.
Confronted by the fragile state that is humanity. When death is more than just mortality and morbidity.
Floating without even grief to hold your heart. Unbroken and unsure.
Sometimes I catch myself not breathing.
No air filtering in through my lungs.
My brain fuzzy and slow without it.
My chest still and my shoulders hunched.
Like some subtle subconscious part of me just decided this was it.
Time to give up.
I'm still the same size as I have always been. it's just the world that's gotten so much smaller than I knew. so small that I can't really see the details anymore. it's all out of focus.
I thought I knew what I was getting myself into
I thought I could be good for both if us.
I thought the butterflies were anticipation
But now I feel like I'm using you to get over my own insecurities
I'm not good at the whole girlfriend thing
I'm scared to see you as mine
Maybe I just need some practice
Maybe I just need some time
If I mess this up it's not your fault
After all my problems are mine.
I was wrong. The clouds are moving. Only slower than me.
They've cleared the other side of the trees now.
And when I can breathe again, so will I.
It's sun down now. The early stages of it, where the sky is still full of light and color. The clouds are thick an mountinous. And completely still in the sky.
The big lumbering breaths are blushed pink around the edges. Deep scores of grey over every curve and crevice. Dense and almost palpable.
It looks like a painted back drop.
And I have no where else to look.
What I wouldnt give to feel the static in my limbs again.
For as much as it makes me jump and twitch at least I can move.
For as distracting as my restlessness is at least I am not still.
Not frozen by the empty space between my skin and my bones.
Left hollow by the absence of motivation; Of want for anything.
I've been here for a while but I really shouldn't stay.
There's an ache in my joints, makes it hard to get away.
I guess I was waiting for you to come and rescue me.
But you never even noticed and now I cannot leave.
@milknosugar-youtube
In response to your beautiful untitled song. This one is for you.
That moment of anticipatory silence
Like the crackle of a speaker before the song starts.
Like the inhale of breath before you speak.
Like the moment after the flash when you're waiting for the thunder
That's what you feel like.
in other words, the chaos that paves the path from birth till death
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