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when I kniht too much

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By Paul StewartPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
Created using ChatGPT/Dall-E

when I kniht too much

---leg

won't

stop

jiggling

too much o v e r whelms

---jiggling

and

fidgeting

o v e r whelms, my mind

---always

always

the

right

my mind is dark, dense

---anxiety,

misery,

attack

dark, dense thoughts

---escape,

reprieve,

I

lack

thoughts that pla-gue

---strange

to

some,

others

plague me with no end

---normal

for

me,

smothers

no end on the h o r i z on

---deranged

enraged,

pained

the horizon is mis-ery

---ytivitisop

is

restrained

misery holds me sl ave

---neuropathways

ingrained

slave for the a b y s s

---lights

and

lortnoc

dulled

the a b y s s, the eternal

---life

not

as

it

was

billed

the eternal pat tern

------leg

won't

stop jiggling

pat tern that re peats

------jiggling

and fidgeting

repeats when I kniht

*

Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: I've spoken before about it...but I get very fidgety and restless legs when I am anxious...so this was kinda inspired of that a little. Then I went a bit...creative with the formatting.

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About the Creator

Paul Stewart

Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!

Streams and Scratches in My Mind coming soon!

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    Written by Paul Stewart