Trapped inside Because the weather Is not nice Forced to confront The pile of dishes The dust bunnies Are conspiring against us The recycling overflowing The tables overburdened They plan to go on strike Outside the window Is a waterfall No escaping The gaze must be turned inwards It is time To clean up Your …
Knowledge is like a drug Fun facts stimulating synapses Until I babble and bubble over Like a pot on the stove Or a computer Too much too fast And you can short circuit It is worse when You want someone else’s mind To dance with you But no one can They think this swirling beautiful …
Frustration is the worst It gnaws at you Worries you away You fidget You scratch Itch, itch, scratch Is that blood under my fingernails? Am I normally this tired? Am I being compulsive? Obsessive? I can’t stress it enough But nobody really hears Anything but empty words Eccentric am I? Extreme, radical Crazy I always …
The sun might touch me But the air chills me The grass is brown under my feet The clouds churn The sky patches of blue and black Like a water colour painting gone wrong This world swirls away Into a different reality I stand in a new universe It is mine I am god here …
So cold I feel the icicles Dripping off my arms The sun won’t touch me Melt me Please I am frozen stiff And can’t move I used to be on fire Burning bright Flaunting the flames Dancing in the shower of sparks And now Inexplicably I am ice And there is no defrost button for …
Poisonous people are infectious Like snakes that steal and suck happiness away And the would turns septic Spreading like the chill of death through your veins A cheerful smile and bouncing voice Turns to a drooping moss mustache In less than a minute Cracks fissure over cheeks and brow Skin turns into bark and organs …
Why do I feel Like I am In the eye of the storm Like time is frozen Like I know The punch line is coming But it won’t be full of laughter Fighting the current Never gets you anywhere But I feel wary Of where I am being swept to Could someone give me a …
