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Imprisoned in My Mind
A Poem
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
