Not the poem I thought was the best poem ever
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I thought I'd written an amazing poem the other day whilst in a state of (to be expected in the circumstances) high anxiety. I'd dictated it, wrote it out on paper - thought it just needed smoothing out but it was absolutely awful when I typed it up and looked at it haha. This poem isn't it, it's a different poem and not the best poem but draws in what I can't actually capture. When staring into space feels incredibly important, yet actually all that happens is self torment and time wasting but you just can't skip it and need that stare into space time before starting your day.
I seek in silence with unfocused eye
find whistles and pips and passage of time
step off ledges into unbridled space
no corners to turn, I face my own face
liminal with a stripped bare mind
no safety nets or friendly guides
won't cover my back or stand on guard
enter at own risk, no holds barred
lost in thought, solace the goal
risks are clear, I'm no friend of my own
attacks just as likely as settled state
in hostile territory, no benefit to equate
is it empty, the space I pull threads
will I unravel or reveal instead
each just as likely as I enter the zone
where I'm not quite gone, not quite home
just like now, it's on the tip of my tongue
all the things I'll never know trip along
like chewed gristle I try to read like a book
hang myself willingly right on the hook
so the time slips away I spend in my head
swap daylight, for lamplight, lamplight for dread
equally likely to be soothed or destroyed
as I willingly walk straight into the void
I don't finish the poem or my spiel
I'm so apologetic that I'm even real
Just stare into space not pulling my weight
just a half hatched plan with a misaligned fate
Copyright © Di11y Da11y | Year Posted 2024
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