poetry – Temperamentally Tina

You just keep trying to smile.

You are breathingyou know that because you can see it through the cold your hands are turning colors the needles settling in you know you must be alive even if you’ve seen yourself burieda nightmare manifested by the brain to damper the illness. Although the illness is make believe it’s the pressuresthat were invented notContinue reading “You just keep trying to smile.”

Trying to understand

I feel I’ve lived several deaths of this mind as it forgetsas it learns parts are turnedparts are picked parts are neglected. They turn they rot and they die offthose deaths they happen often in this brain of mine I can see so clearly feel it so heavily and then I just don’t I changeContinue reading “Trying to understand”

I see only pieces.

I see this place. I can’t see alleverything at onceonly pieces although I know of the pain and the discontent because I read itand I can hear in my head certain words being spoken. Although I’m not thereand I can’t be clear why it happened or how it happened reporting what we do it neverContinue reading “I see only pieces.”

Fragments

To be lost in the all partsthat are the wholeas it all staggers on top slipping pieces through fragments of time like shards of glassreflecting what iswhat was what could be ill is the mind that sees itall the times that existedall the times that haven’t that hasthat willthat couldthat might that isit is aContinue reading “Fragments”

Nothing but this body.

I will be here and in my death I won’t be there I’ll be the ashes in the airand not a soul left behind because I am nothing but this body you seeburning of this flesh the ashes swarming I’ll be everywhereand nowhere because I’ll be nothing as the wind gathers me whipping me aboutmyContinue reading “Nothing but this body.”

Unique, the experience of life.

I have a difficult time being ok with it with most of it I wake up because I’m alive I’d rather stay asleep although to stop dreaming is incomprehensible to my brain how could I not exist I wouldn’t knowthe brain would stop and it would all stop? It’s that ideathat theory that beliefthat whenContinue reading “Unique, the experience of life.”

I just have thoughts.

I don’t want to be crude I just have thoughts and I think a lot and I’m not the type to enjoy tradition I just can’t dosimply because people have. I don’t believe in GODand I don’t wan to be blessed during every transaction and I don’t want to smilebecause it makes you feel comfortContinue reading “I just have thoughts.”

Intelligence

Intelligence is the ability to eat knowledge digesting itand storing it within the brain. Each bite you takethe body breaks down sending the nutrition straight to the bossand that bosshelpless as it isconfined in its boned cageit isn’t aware of poison even if it is it struggles to rid of it. All the knowledge seepswithContinue reading “Intelligence”

I’ll write it.

I’ll write it because if I speak it I’ll forget it I’ll twist itI’ll ignore you because I’ll be worried you won’t hear me I’ll speak over I’ll speak louderso I’d rather write it down I’m frustrated always and it’s not you it’s just my mind the way it thinks I can’t leave it behindContinue reading “I’ll write it.”