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I had an epiphany today The first one in a long time Such an interesting organ the brain So many studies Yet no one knows how consciousness really works And if it even abides in the brain at all My brain has been broken And I alone am the only one who can fix it Broken people Not having it all together people Don't always realize this Or they have traveled so far down the rabbit hole They no longer want to Which leads me to my epiphany Not only is my reality not yours It does not need to be I cannot describe the pureness I felt in that moment The freedom I started to cry It wasn't until the moment I felt those chains slip free Did I realize they were encasing me I had been a prisoner in my own mind Trying to be what everyone else wanted me to be Never realizing my own voice have been turned on mute Suddenly the beauty that I had been blind to for weeks months years Surrounded me Colors bombarded my eyes even as tears flowed out of them And the birds... ah yes the birds They have come to represent an evil few have ever known I think I might remember what a dove used to sound like But the song that reaches my ears no longer bares any resemblance To the song that reaches yours But as of this moment I am OK with that Because this is the life I live now I did not choose it It was forced upon me My faceless enemies These monsters had their fun But they did not win Because I live every moment of my life I have never allowed it to just pass me by And though I have not chosen the path I was forced to take It has been my choice to rise above With strength, integrity and empathy Always empathy And though I have not one bit of knowledge on how to conquer the unknown My story will be written So that the forgotten will know they are not alone I will shout it from the mountains high And though I know many will not believe I just need enough to realize the truth Because while I was in the vipers pit everywhere I turned Complete darkness I know that so much was a delusion Yet I also know that enough of it was irrefutably true To let me know that it was real It only takes a spark And although it goes against my very compassionate nature I want to burn these Mother F***ers to the ground 09/31/2019 Rock Bottom Pick a Line any Line Poetry Contest Sponsored by Richard Lamoureux
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