Scrambled thoughts erode my brain
Oh anxiety my old friend.
You’ve come to play with me again.
Im stuck where I don’t want to be
Remembering how I thought I’d be big.
Mum needs me to take care of her
Or if dad will walk me down the wedding isle
My life is over, or is it beginning.
I could give up now at twenty nine
Cause I keep going back to when I was nine.
And all the things I never said.
Would it have changed anything.
Would it have stoped things from happening.
Should I live in the future instead.
Oh how I wish good things were coming.
What is time.
Is it in this imaginary line.
Have I forgotten something again.
I’ll start writing it tomorrow.
It’s midnight then 2am
And I’m reviewing My life in moments
What if my last relationship was the one
Did I fuck it up?
But then again I think it a German guitar player…
It’s implausible at best but could it be.
A dreaming desire to smooth the soul out
And make the hurt less real.
Five years ago I said I’d leave
Here I am still at the seam.
Two years from now will I be here.
Or will I have jumped.
I should really sleep.
I have to get up tomorrow.
I should have picked a different degree.
Can I still be who I want to be?
And I try to string together this poem
That’s in my mind.
The one that holds thoughts scrambled
And I wonder if that’s normal
To say things can be ordered.
Or if normalization is control.
Would a reader even think this is odd
Does it make sense or is it scattered???
But it doesn’t really matter
After all it’s all just floating inside my head.
About the Creator
Lane Burns
I am a Poet and an inspiring short story, one day novel writer.
I like to write in free verse mostly, but am heavily inspired by Emily Dickenson, and tend to create my own rules and ideas as well.
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