And then the day came
The day my mind opened
Just the smallest of a break
So that I could see inside my own thoughts,
As if I were an outsider looking in.
And what I discovered
Was truly disturbing...
A Pandoras box
Of jumbled thoughts
Of half planned ideas.
This tiny crack revealed
A child's misunderstanding
Of what was true
And what was not.
I saw that I allowed others
To control my every action
My every thought
As if they owned me.
I saw how I let others lead me/use me.
How I trusted so easily
To totally trust
Without reason. I saw the people I had let into my life
I saw them as they really were
Life suckers who had almost drained
I wish I was brave ,
Brave enough to say
Go away
Stop talking
I don't want you here,
In my space
In my home
On my chair
Telling me how I've wasted my life
Talking, talking, talking...
But
I'm not brave.
I might implode soon
Because I'm not brave enough to explode
My mind is screaming
Shut up . Shut the fuck up
But
I nod and agree
Yes I nod
Yes I know
I know I've wasted my life
Wasted your time
I nod, I agree ( shut up, shut the fuck up)
She sits looking at me,
I think maybe I need to explain
Why I'm such a useless, terrible
Person.
But then the talk ,talk, talking starts again
And I fucking really REALLY
Need her to SHUT UP
S
I've been feeling so scared..
So less than
So different
So terrified
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
I wonder what it will be like
Who will talk to me
Or not
Will the past be brought up
Like a slap in the face
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
Will I be crying in the toilets
Again
Will I be able to pretend for hours/days that I'm ok
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
I love them all, but we are so very very different
And they are many and smart and accomplished
And I am just me
And I am afraid
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
Still the same,
The same as last year.
The same as the year before.
The same as last month
The same as yesterday
The day before,
Always the same
Nothing changes
I have learned It is easier to just not try,
Easier to give up the fight
To stand still,
To be the same
To let others eat at my remains
Like maggots on dead flesh,
A statue that never moves or grows,
My times of trying are long gone,
So I let myself be controlled
By others,
It is easier than fighting, than trying,
So I am still the same,
Only my eyes tell my truth,
That maybe, just maybe
I will move,
Given the right alignment with
Whatever faith I'm trying on .
But I stay the
Did you set out to destroy me?
From the moment our eyes,our lives connected
Did you set out to destroy me?
When I gave up everything,everyone for you
Did you set out to destroy me ?
Every time I denied the truth and trusted you again
Did you set out to destroy me?
When you handled my love so carelessly
Did you set out to destroy me?
The days,the months ,the years passed by touched only by your betrayals
Did you set out to destroy me?
By being so cruel that I finally had to leave you
Did you set out to destroy me?
That day
That moment
That we met
The battle within my mind has been never-ending
The dark thoughts always win.
I allow others to dictate my feelings; my thoughts; my life.
I am worthy
A feeling I have never trusted
For haven't I always been told ;
Always believed that I am so unworthy.
I am worthy
My mind wants me to distrust those words
But those three words are getting stronger
I am worthy
I need...I want to believe these words
I will die if I do not take the leap to believe..
I am worthy
I am worthy
I will be reborn into a new life if I will just allow myself to believe
I am worthy
A new strength
A new life
A rebirth
I am worthy
And by believing in these three
She lives inside her head
Its so busy in there
So full of fear and dread
There's no time for anything
Or anyone else
Her mind clamor for her attention - a living thing full of voices and questions
Quietest and mistrust
Telling her constantly
Not to trust too much
That her life is useless
Her friends a lie
Telling her
Maybe it's time for you to die
She screams
"Shut up shut up
Youre not my truth "
But they yell and push louder at her
Willing her to listen
To obey their will........
A fragment
A spark
Ignite to fight
And lead her towards some form of light
Fighting her own mind with all of her might.
She knows she needs to quiet her mind
I think I'm starting to feel and it's at times amazingly clear and sharp and focused while at others times it's like trying to walk through cottonwool. I've never allowed myself to feel...it always led to danger and uncertainty. But I've reached a point in my life where I want freedom from my self imposed chains. Its new ,exciting, terrifying, challenging yet freedom like I've never experienced before. What's brought about this change in me? I woke up alone one day afraid , a day like any other really, only this time a thought kept rolling round my head. It said to me "if you had died during the night who would know ? You have no one who car
Again
A word that grips me like a vice
I could survive anything if it were only once
Again
By the very meaning of the word I have already suffered once
I will suffer more than once
Again
How many times must I endure the torture
Again
I pray for an end for some mercy for my soul
Again
I hope it's the last
My head questions why but
there's never an answer
Only the ominous threat of that hateful word
It goes on and on ,no end in sight.
I finally give up, give in
For there are those who delight in my fear and pain
For those who live to torture
Again Again again again. ...
Another day slips away
I've achieved nothing again
That is better than the fearing ...
In the silence of nothing I can survive
Like an unborn babe floating in a mother's silent swell
Easy to survive
Nothing to strive for
Just floating
Then the fearing deceneds on me again
Screaming for my acknowledgment
Crying at me
Tearing like a seagull
The fearing wills me to listen
You are nothing
You are no one
Worthless
Stupid
Afraid of your own shadow
You know that people see you
They laugh at you
They love to see you fall
To see you fail
I cannot let the fearing win
Yet I'm too weak to fight it's overwhelming strength
So I do nothing
I get
And then the day came
The day my mind opened
Just the smallest of a break
So that I could see inside my own thoughts,
As if I were an outsider looking in.
And what I discovered
Was truly disturbing...
A Pandoras box
Of jumbled thoughts
Of half planned ideas.
This tiny crack revealed
A child's misunderstanding
Of what was true
And what was not.
I saw that I allowed others
To control my every action
My every thought
As if they owned me.
I saw how I let others lead me/use me.
How I trusted so easily
To totally trust
Without reason. I saw the people I had let into my life
I saw them as they really were
Life suckers who had almost drained
I wish I was brave ,
Brave enough to say
Go away
Stop talking
I don't want you here,
In my space
In my home
On my chair
Telling me how I've wasted my life
Talking, talking, talking...
But
I'm not brave.
I might implode soon
Because I'm not brave enough to explode
My mind is screaming
Shut up . Shut the fuck up
But
I nod and agree
Yes I nod
Yes I know
I know I've wasted my life
Wasted your time
I nod, I agree ( shut up, shut the fuck up)
She sits looking at me,
I think maybe I need to explain
Why I'm such a useless, terrible
Person.
But then the talk ,talk, talking starts again
And I fucking really REALLY
Need her to SHUT UP
S
I've been feeling so scared..
So less than
So different
So terrified
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
I wonder what it will be like
Who will talk to me
Or not
Will the past be brought up
Like a slap in the face
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
Will I be crying in the toilets
Again
Will I be able to pretend for hours/days that I'm ok
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
I love them all, but we are so very very different
And they are many and smart and accomplished
And I am just me
And I am afraid
Again
A family gathering is about to explode upon me soon
Still the same,
The same as last year.
The same as the year before.
The same as last month
The same as yesterday
The day before,
Always the same
Nothing changes
I have learned It is easier to just not try,
Easier to give up the fight
To stand still,
To be the same
To let others eat at my remains
Like maggots on dead flesh,
A statue that never moves or grows,
My times of trying are long gone,
So I let myself be controlled
By others,
It is easier than fighting, than trying,
So I am still the same,
Only my eyes tell my truth,
That maybe, just maybe
I will move,
Given the right alignment with
Whatever faith I'm trying on .
But I stay the
Did you set out to destroy me?
From the moment our eyes,our lives connected
Did you set out to destroy me?
When I gave up everything,everyone for you
Did you set out to destroy me ?
Every time I denied the truth and trusted you again
Did you set out to destroy me?
When you handled my love so carelessly
Did you set out to destroy me?
The days,the months ,the years passed by touched only by your betrayals
Did you set out to destroy me?
By being so cruel that I finally had to leave you
Did you set out to destroy me?
That day
That moment
That we met
The battle within my mind has been never-ending
The dark thoughts always win.
I allow others to dictate my feelings; my thoughts; my life.
I am worthy
A feeling I have never trusted
For haven't I always been told ;
Always believed that I am so unworthy.
I am worthy
My mind wants me to distrust those words
But those three words are getting stronger
I am worthy
I need...I want to believe these words
I will die if I do not take the leap to believe..
I am worthy
I am worthy
I will be reborn into a new life if I will just allow myself to believe
I am worthy
A new strength
A new life
A rebirth
I am worthy
And by believing in these three
She lives inside her head
Its so busy in there
So full of fear and dread
There's no time for anything
Or anyone else
Her mind clamor for her attention - a living thing full of voices and questions
Quietest and mistrust
Telling her constantly
Not to trust too much
That her life is useless
Her friends a lie
Telling her
Maybe it's time for you to die
She screams
"Shut up shut up
Youre not my truth "
But they yell and push louder at her
Willing her to listen
To obey their will........
A fragment
A spark
Ignite to fight
And lead her towards some form of light
Fighting her own mind with all of her might.
She knows she needs to quiet her mind
I think I'm starting to feel and it's at times amazingly clear and sharp and focused while at others times it's like trying to walk through cottonwool. I've never allowed myself to feel...it always led to danger and uncertainty. But I've reached a point in my life where I want freedom from my self imposed chains. Its new ,exciting, terrifying, challenging yet freedom like I've never experienced before. What's brought about this change in me? I woke up alone one day afraid , a day like any other really, only this time a thought kept rolling round my head. It said to me "if you had died during the night who would know ? You have no one who car
Again
A word that grips me like a vice
I could survive anything if it were only once
Again
By the very meaning of the word I have already suffered once
I will suffer more than once
Again
How many times must I endure the torture
Again
I pray for an end for some mercy for my soul
Again
I hope it's the last
My head questions why but
there's never an answer
Only the ominous threat of that hateful word
It goes on and on ,no end in sight.
I finally give up, give in
For there are those who delight in my fear and pain
For those who live to torture
Again Again again again. ...
Another day slips away
I've achieved nothing again
That is better than the fearing ...
In the silence of nothing I can survive
Like an unborn babe floating in a mother's silent swell
Easy to survive
Nothing to strive for
Just floating
Then the fearing deceneds on me again
Screaming for my acknowledgment
Crying at me
Tearing like a seagull
The fearing wills me to listen
You are nothing
You are no one
Worthless
Stupid
Afraid of your own shadow
You know that people see you
They laugh at you
They love to see you fall
To see you fail
I cannot let the fearing win
Yet I'm too weak to fight it's overwhelming strength
So I do nothing
I get
The ocean was calm while Lou checked her nets in the afternoon light. She pushed aside the flopping piles of fish, looking for anything that didn’t look like mackerel before dumping the lot through the hole to below deck. It was a slow process: setting the nets close to the shoal, waiting for the mackerel to swim into the waiting trap, engaging the power block’s hydraulic engine to pull the (hopefully full) net back to the boat, and hoisting its treasures above the deck for examination. It could be faster if Lou didn’t work alone, but out here on Monhegan there wasn’t much in the way of hirable crew.
She wasn’t