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"Mind's I"

(Jerk Awake)

By Jeffrey P BaileyPublished about a year ago 1 min read
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"Mind's I"
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I’m closing my eyes

Lack of sleep no surprise

It’s enervating when you can’t converse

With someone not as enlightened

You feel damned near cursed inside

The weight of the world you’re thrown into

A mind that feels a black haze from which you can’t emerge

A fog that won’t burn

An undercurrent of hurt darkening the Chakras

can’t articulate can’t gestate can’t calculate

A rebirth..

Sometimes not for a lack of fighting

No one offers the perfect words

So you want to jump out of your own mind

Leave this all behind

You can’t be saved in this life.

I hope you didn’t give up on us

I’ll always wonder if I did right enough.

So the klonopin counters the effect of the caffeine long enough to lie down

and momentarily your eyes heavy and your apnea intermittent

you snore as if you’re off to sleep

only in this recession of anxious wonder that theta state bounces you out …

once you realize in what should be a peaceful state you know you can’t abide…

Solitude in captive stillness so youre jerked awake –

Out of what should be nothingness is lucid madness from which my mind can’t hide.

Know that at least for you

Nothing can wrench your mind

The way our separation does mine.

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Jeffrey P Bailey

Fan-funded. https://account.venmo.com/u/Jeffrey-Bailey-115

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5DZupaqo8&t=125s&ab_channel=ScottAlanSpiritualEssence

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