How to Give Up on Your Dreams
Weave,through time, your inability,
forget everything you’ve ever learned and go back to what you once were;
Be greedy with sugar, be greedy with love,
let them destroy your health.
Give up your skills because none of them are worth going through anything.
Read what you don’t enjoy
Love what doesn’t serve you
Drive yourself to a point so excruciatingly empty
soundless
that you won’t even strive for music
you’ll simply strive for noise
no matter how obstreperous it might be.
Then write about it
expatiate that noise to the point of exhaustion
because in the silence
any wave is unusual
water is scarce
and your mind, empty of dreams as it is, will surf on said waves as it surfs past every terrible thing you are now inured to
with ease, not stemming from strength but from natural laws
and you pass away to a better place
where life is repainted
from colors never seen
Shoehorned words placed on top of one another
Letters become drudgery
Passion was your sin