time isn’t a funny and fickle thing;
it always passes
it passes in a flash,
and in this world that moves so damn fast,
I
am
slow
I am slow,
and I can’t seem catch it
even when I sprint,
I’m slow;
my processors are always
loading….loading….
and I’m either lagging behind
or stumbling toward
as I find myself
in a world destined to lose itself,
time moves on,
and no matter how slow I am,
so do I
time isn’t funny and fickle –
I am
There’s no music in these headphones,
No rhythmic beat a’playin’,
There’s no cool lyrics to sing to,
For dancin’ or hip swayin’
There’s no music in these headphones,
No recharging chord,
There’s no lullaby for comfort,
When times get really hard
There’s no music in these headphones,
There’s no power supply,
There’s nothing but the static,
And the tears that have run dry
-image via Pixabay; written and re-posted as part of Mental Health Awareness Month to help bring awareness to the realities of depression
in so many crevices,
in drawers and cabinets and waste paper baskets,
buried,
beneath, beneath,
lies wrappered shrapnel,
hidden,
yet, gnawing, gnawing,
from the inside out,
a silvery, crinkled breadcrumb graveyard of words,
unspoken,
a secret swallow for every sinful syllable,
a cloaked choke on every vile vowel,
gnarled nouns stuck somewhere between my stomach and my mouth,
and there’s just no relief
sneaking behind closed doors and around corners,
furiously famished,
I binge and cringe on chocolate barbs,
on sacks of salty sinew,
slicing and chewing at the operatic clash,
at the rising, rising of the pitiful loathe,
a boiling bile in the pit of my being
a flood,
unuttered,
yet, refusing to be unheard
-image via Pinterest, by artist Lee Price
Heart Breathings 