Wednesday, June 1, 2016

a gemini in division


 
 
no day is the same
          no hour
some days i feel so good
          sometimes
then for no reason at all i’m down
          depressed
 
i want to get drunk
          it doesn’t do any good
but depression physically hurts
and all those voices,
“you’re nothing but dirt”
          ring true
 
yesterday was such a good day
          today i thought i just needed
                   more caffeine
 
but now i recognize
          what i’m feeling
almost bought beer
but opened an o’douls
 
pain, sadness, dark
and for fuck’s sake
          it has nothing to do
                   with what i believe
 
i have a disease
          chemical imbalance
it’s the only thing that explains
          how the only thing that changes
                   is me
 
my world view
          is that it is all perception
and not tangibly real
so the world doesn’t dictate how i feel
 
but i’m sure feeling something
          and right now i just want to
                   slip this skin
 
i’ve fought off thoughts of gin
          using my pen
to let a little light in
 
free, fall, flow
let my words glow
maybe bestow
          some balance
 
my one talent
          i didn’t bury in the sand
the wind will always blow
          and expose
what is buried underneath
there is nothing i bequeath
but my collection of horror films
          and CDs of alternative emo
 
today i just can’t show
          sides that supplicate
                   your suspicions
 
a gemini in division
resistant to your revisions
 
there is no cure
except in my CD player
the only thing missing
is cloud convalescent rain
 
and the absence of pain
coursing through my veins
the life blood of depression
 
poetry confession isn’t a profession
but it’s how i make a go at living
all these words i’m giving
          are not for you
                   just me
watch me bleed
          ink
until my body is a single tattoo
 
stenciled without a clue
until my image is a picasso
          or a salvador dali
 
on a beach in bali
          i could still feel this way
i don’t choose the day
the chemical imbalance
                    crowns me with a downward spiral
 
viral
it infects
          i genuflect
 
emotionally fetal
the earthworms and beetles infest
till they digest
every ounce of my strength
 
till even this pen is too heavy to hold
 
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