Saturday, January 25, 2020

you

you're breaking my heart so slowly
I didn't even realize it until now
blinking back wetness
I'm consumed by you
and it really hurts




thanks a lot

Wednesday, January 08, 2020

it's a-me

I am compelled to write, if not to inform myself, than to deposit the heaviness that presses on my insides constantly. I feel myself shrinking under my own inclinations, slicing myself into pieces, digesting my own thoughts and turning them inside out, thinking so much that I don't have room to think. And so, I must write.

I need to write about so much that my fingers freeze in hesitation and pause to grasp for a moment at the whisper-strings flying about behind my eyes, only to break them in their delicate existence. I cry out in frustration like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum, thwarted by the loss of my own control.

And so I'll start, like humans tend to do, with myself. My own impatience is sending me tumbling into non-productivity. Frankly, I want to be someone that I'm not. Wisdom tells me to be content with who I am, to change myself step by step if I wish to improve, and to take each step with a happiness and joy that propels me into a greater step of being. I can say it, but I can't do it, and I want to be lighter today, I want to reverse decisions I've made, I want to be able to complete everything in one fell swoop and become perfection with a simple nod of my head. If I can't perform perfectly in any aspect, how will I ever become as perfect as I hope to be? I can't change my face, and I can't seem to change people's perceptions of me. I found myself pulled by patience at this time last year, and I'm struggling to find the vein that I happened upon and took for granted. I try to draw from my strength, but I just feel so weak and want gratification, now. I'm tired of being patient. I'm tired of waiting.

I feel like I've wasted time. I'll talk about him, about his non-productivity, even worse than mine, stuck with no drive. Have I caught his disease? Is he as overwhelmed as I am? I curse myself for the instincts I have to take him into my heart to keep him warm, like Han Solo stuffing Luke into a TaunTaun to keep him warm and save his life. But my heart's not a freaking TaunTaun and I need to chill, or rather, to let him chill, to leave him to die in his own pathetic wasteland of "I can't" and "I don't want to." I'm finished being an unrecognized stilt and I seethe at my own commitment to he who can't even recognize my functionality or strength. So, I've wasted time and I hate wasting time, and I've gone backwards in patience and forwards in my downhill descent, and I'm leading my heart into a broken wasteland to die, if not for eternity, then just for a few minutes.

I thought I had more to say, but I guess I feel relief already and I'm less involved in myself now that I'm on the page. Forget about the finances, about the obligations, about the snowflakes still threatening to keep me cold, about the food, about the men, about the schoolwork I'll have to do--I'll manage somehow, just as I always do. I assume it won't be the end of me, and if it is, I guess things could be worse.