Poetry

Here Before

I’ve been here before

There’s no difference

Broken is broken

Drowned is drowned

Buried is buried

But tomorrow I’ll be above ground

Poetry

No More

Terrified no more

(Just slightly anxious)

Sunlight

Does the anxiety-wracked body good

(Calms the nerves a bit)

Into my depths of black

Glowing serenity spins

(I think I mean you)

Poetry

Distance

You may be distant

But you aren’t pointless

Detachment is a symptom

Of a beautiful soul

Poetry

Entryways and Exits

Balancing
Between panic and panic
Just beyond reach
Crystalline portals
To new worlds
Beyond this one
Of heart rates and clenching

They take the forms
Of night skies
Dancing fields
Miniature hands
Shooting stars
Freckles faces
Celestial sounds

Always visible
Always audible
Always unattainable
Both escape and entrapment
Entryways and exits

Poetry

Beneficial Dysphoria

I feel too much.
I have emotions that are far stronger than most people understand.
I feel my guts in knots over the slightest things.

I was a pushover.
I was a doormat.
To many people at too many times.
Maybe I’ve swung too much in the other direction.
Maybe my insecurity makes me seem prideful.
I’m just trying to stay out of the fetal position.

I’ve found myself in the stars.
I’ve found myself in freckles.
When stars and freckles aren’t present I’m often lost.
Am I really independent after all?

I’m a perfectionist about the things that don’t matter to other people.
I let the things that do slip through the cracks.
Am I determined to myself but lazy to others?

Maybe I’m too aware of the cracks in my personality.
Maybe I should step back and learn to live without worry.
Maybe I should pretend that’s even a possibility for me.
Is there such a thing as beneficial dysphoria?