a dust cloud
filtered
in sunlight and darkness
you wanted to be unsettled, disturbed
and so you are
With words, I want to bring forth tangible evidence of the bile lurking inside, luring me to death, over and over again. I feel pain, and I like it. I feel pain, and it’s unbearable. Then, I feel nothing. And repeat.
The next step is a “mood stabilizer,” which seems like an awfully late game play. Perhaps this might have been helpful on the front end. They add stabilizers when you’ve become “hard to treat.” No joke. Treatment-resistant depression, it’s called, as if it’s a cockroach that endures just because it can. It feels like depression is stronger than me, and it’s winning. Everyone tells me depression doesn’t last forever, but in some rare cases, it does. If it saturates your life and personality long enough, it’s a permanent condition. A terminal condition.
youth is a deathtrap
we all fall into
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October 29, 2008 at 4:29 pm
poeticgrin
I like the play between poetry and prose here – the final couplet is powerful and deadly and rings in one’s ears for moments after the piece is finished.