Mind Trick

Mind trick As I enter I am conscious Of the dangers and effects Even though it is alluring I’ll regret in retrospect But my mind just keeps persisting This time too it’ll have its way Even though I’m well acquainted With the things it will display And it’s just like at the movies I am ready and all set Soon my mind will start projecting All the things I must forget And I sit there while reliving Awful things that made me sad All the while infatuated By the impact they once had Though petrified I keep on viewing Now and then I make a sound I now see to my confusion That these visuals still haunt But the courage still eludes me To get up and leave this space And the horrors I’m enduring Can be seen upon my face As I slowly am regaining The awareness that I lost I agree my mind has tricked me To forget what it would cost So again I start the struggle To escape the void I’m in With a temporary promise Not to enter here again. Wendy Nipas