I have Ghostface tapping on the window waiting on someone to turn on meDrug induced psychosis feeling the vibrations of words in someone else's conversation starts to gnaw on me
He cannot hear your heart love do not give away your cover
Do not shovel up your body trying to find something meaningful down under
Puking out earth worms well the alcohol did kill something
Just not the thing from which I have been running
Another part of me is rotting away
But I cannot stand the reality of decay
Death's an ugly process I have seen it in my dreams
Death is a beautiful process when you know she was at peace
Do you hear me? God, I hope I'm awake
Please tell me this is therapy, and I am not at her wake
You are spinning in the viewpoint of a baby's cradle
Was it valium in the bottle that molded my fathers fuzzed out fables?
Blood coming out the crevices of a child's teeth
They tried to teach them not to devour the inside of their cheeks
They have anxiety generalized, a panic disorder
The stomach cramping of a chronic worrier
Did it happen?
Am I simply scared?
Was there blood on satin?
Where did he put the ripped-out clumps of hair?
"I don't need to know"
"I am sure that you don't"
"I do not need to when I can just remain in denial"
"was that the set of thought the last time you were suicidal?"
"why are you so set on pointing out in every which way that I am wrong?"
"I am just trying to give you a different perspective it is just a part of my job
Just remember the one who is getting paid
With every set of advice, you refuse to take"
I pause for a minute and she clicks her pen and starts to say
"now I am not trying to lecture I just am giving you the tools
So, whether or not you get better is truly up to you"
"fine but I don't want to quit drinking"
"I have told you before it is not safe to keep liquids on a ship that is sinking
You have time to repair the damage
Why are you trying to get drunk instead of acknowledging the crash that just happened?"
And that seems to be the part where they manage to penetrate my mind
I never told them about the little girl that died
But I have ghosts show up to my appointments when I go to therapy high
They must think what I am saying is from normal PTSD, but I promise I have already been well out of my mind
I know the tastes of a classmate's brains after their suicides
So that is what it feels like to not want to be alive
Thanks, looks like you left in your will
Can no longer wave to their bodies after school, they have all been killed
You want a stupid argument after the source is gone
How you would bring them back just to be able to hear them prove you wrong
"silence why is it you do not silence?"
"do you just want me to explain that I have grown comfortable with the sound of domestic violence?"
"no, I want to hear you process out loud what you are well aware of"
"how do I say quietness does not feel safe when I am in love?"
Just to be cut off and told that is the end of our session
Guess next appointments going to revolve around my sensitivity to rejection
"we will touch this topic again next appointment"
"well that is if I remember sorry for the disappointment"
YOU ARE READING
Accepting what I cannot
PoetrySynopsis After years of unresolved trauma, I have decided to write a book consisting of poetry that I have written in some of my deepest moments of self-reflection. Some bittersweet, others uncensored with raw emotion. I mention both the strugg...