I can’t be this environmentI can’ttake off my skin and let the soul be freeto meet its placeabove in paradise or below in an eternity of torture I can’t be just another name to be praised I’m notI’ve never been the kindness person the prettiest person the perfect person I’m not I haven’t beenand IContinue reading “I can’t be this environment.”
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Human
Humanwe try to define ittry to separate ittry to categorize it try to define it. Human is humanif it breathes if it thinks anatomically it is human. We separate classify it disassociate aspects as if this human is better than that human any human that breathes any human alive is using resources is conducting mistakesContinue reading “Human”
I can’t keep awake.
I can’t keep awakeand when I am I can’t keep my mind in placeit runs fastand it stops my ears from listening because the thoughts it thinksare quickand rarely stopping. When I’m asleepit stays busycreating dreamsplaying beneath my eyelidsand I can’t stay wakecan’t keep myself thinking with purposerather my brain changes the thoughtand writes outContinue reading “I can’t keep awake.”
There isn’t my best.
There isn’t my bestthere is just a portion that triesa part that keeps doing thingskeeps waking in the morningkeeps forcing me to sleep keeps forcing me to eatthere isn’t my bestjust a portion that tries. A portion that combines wordshit up against the other portion that hates structurethat hates authoritythat hates any that tells meContinue reading “There isn’t my best.”
My brain is drowning.
My brain is drowning within this age of knowledgethe information is pulling itweighting it down it cannot come up it’s forgetting the automatic tasksbreathe it tells the lungsit had forgotten. Opinions are spitting aboutand the facts can’t counter enough blocking a few particlesas the others entermy brain is drowning within all the saliva flinging fromContinue reading “My brain is drowning.”
As if my brain has shut off.
I’m never certain often feeling out as if my brain has shut off the part that relates to everyone else. A quick click a face pops upa few lines about parenting about the dos and don’ts and it all feels offfar from a place I can attach. Schools don’t foster potential or bring about aContinue reading “As if my brain has shut off.”
Expectations
Expectations shorten usdisplaces our happiness and changes what we could be. Expectations how long to finish a task how quickly to speak how many words we shall know how well we should write. Expectations quitting before we finish because of the limits we put upon ourselves what we expect to what it could be andContinue reading “Expectations”
I know this because of science.
My heart beatsI know this because of scienceI can feel it I can check a pulse through my wrist I know I am aliveand I know I have a heart. I can hold my breath and let it out I know I have lungs I know this because of science. I am alive I canContinue reading “I know this because of science.”
Breathing I can do.
Breathing I can do partially take in deep breathslet a few out apparently there is a proper waythrough the stomachI breathe through my chestit’s the human waythe complicated aspects of it allthe logistics of everythingwe can’t just breathewe can’t just relaxwe have to do it this waynot that waysit on a mat take deep breathslistenContinue reading “Breathing I can do.”
We’ve been together.
We’ve been growing we’ve been holding it in we’ve been letting it outwe’ve been together. Here we are speaking here we are feelinghere we are livinghere we are together. Staying in our home staying within our place of safety staying in the comfort of usstaying in together. We’ve been feeling our angerwe’ve been feeling ourContinue reading “We’ve been together.”
Temperamentally Tina 