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Imprisoned in My Mind

A Poem

Jillian Spiridon
2 min readFeb 17, 2025
Photo by Velizar Ivanov on Unsplash

hello —
is anybody out there?

i thought i’d have the story threads by now,
but i suppose i don’t (i suppose i never did) —
but in my head there’s a chaos i can’t stand
even though i knew i would be better off

if it would just be quiet

it’s not my mental health
even as much as i would like it to be —
even as much as i want it to be just
a passing phase

every day,
my mind cycles through minds
not my own, not my own, not my own —
and the only thing that can clear it

is a melody from another room

and then i’m just imprisoned in my own mind,
left to the whims of others —
demons, maybe, in some fashion of a making
or people with just too much time on their hands

and i know it sounds crazy
even as much as i know people are better off
when they keep to themselves and don’t stir
the air around them at all

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Jillian Spiridon
Jillian Spiridon

Written by Jillian Spiridon

just another writer with too many cats

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Oh my… this was good 👍🏽

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Good work

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You really do let us dance to the very edge with you, only to find something more, something insistently hopeful and ever searching…beautiful madness.

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