The pressure at 35km under the ocean will crush a human Did you get lost swimming? Stress is the elephant that sits on your chest Crushing Keeps you awake at night rushing like a train through your veins Why would you choose it, hand over hand over hand Ascending a rope to nowhere? Perhaps you […]
I blame the movies The books The Netflix dramas That go on and on The highs and the lows That drive the story And us To believe that life is supposed to be lived like an amusement park ride When really Reality is calm It is quiet The sound of a leaf dropping Birdsong And […]
Here you come a creeping Tightening bands around my head Flowing down my shoulders Restricting Constricting Ravaging My chest And there I go sending Sending you away Breathing deep And dusting all your clingy fingers away The tendrils still crawl towards me But I stamp upon their fronds I’m aware that you’re a channel Switch […]
