Frozen time feels like a heartbeat
Quickly the time passes
A beat, or two
You can never really tell
Sometimes I hear three beats
Others I hear none
Until one day, a rhythm appeared.
Not the normal crotchet rhythm
This new, different
A crotchet
A quaver
A semiquaver
A demisemiquaver
The drum gets faster
The heartbeat speeds up
My lungs grasp onto passing breath
Like a kid in a candy shop
I wa...
Hunger fills my stomach with daydreaming in my head
Tiredness fills my brain with thoughts of my bed
Boredom fills my hands from holding the pointed led
Sleep fills my eyes from all the words I have read
Regret fills my conscious and replays what I said
Voices fill my ears like a needle and thread
Fatigue fills my legs and I cannot go ahead
Today feels like forever, and I’m as good as dead...
Endless starry nights. I come here often to forget the present, past and future. I want to get away. I need to get away. I rest my head on the armchair’s neck and close my eyes. The swish of the water beneath me is calming. This is where I feel safe. Where I belong. The people out there, they don’t understand me. I am accepted here....