Emptiness grows like weeds
Crawling and creeping
Inside of me
Knotweed spiraling around my veins
My roots pulled
Till nothing can ground me
Life thrives around me
But the essence of me
Has long since died
death
Life. We mourn.
Life.
A catalyst for loss.
All said
We’re trinkets of absences
Trying to remember
Those we mourn
untitled.
The trees bared all and the woods collected the debris of life. Feet left their prints and the Robins remained the last birds singing. Clouds cast shadows so as to smother the light of day. A murder of Crows cawed their raucous cries and the world looked and felt like the end. But it was worse. Days and nights merged without an end in sight.
Rain
My emptiness is full tonight
As the sun sets just out of sight
I picture you coming home
But it’s too late
No time for goodbyes
Gone in the blink of an eye
And the sky doesn’t care
Cause the clouds aren’t here
Raining like it ought to be
Heavy breath full of empty
It’s hard to breathe
When you can see
The world is continuing
Without you
And my world is nothing
Cause it revolved around you
I want the rain
Raining over me
Dilute these tears
Before I disintegrate
I want the rain
Let it rain over me
It’s not raining like it ought to be
I carry you under the sun
Your absence gets heavier
In the sun
I need to go somewhere dark
To let this burden go
From my heart
But I don’t want to say goodbye
So I carry you
Under the sun
Time fills the season
But I’m all out of reasons
I’m a tree that never recovered
From the fall
So I carry you
under the sun
I’ll always carry you
Under the sun
Watching shadows of wildlife on my wall
Shadows of dinosaurs
On my wall
Bushy tails shaking
Communicating
Something I can’t decipher
Perhaps about a dinosaur up above
About to come down
And grasp at life with its talons
Silence
The arrival…
Of footfalls…
The birds singing…
Wilting flowers
In the funeral home
That breath …
Sighed…
That lingering goodnight kiss
Remembered.
Footsteps…
R
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Each silence has it’s own sound
Who you tryin’ to kid.
Who you tryin’ to kid anyway
You’re just a man, on the fray
Falling at the seams
Collecting the shards of all your broken dreams
Sharp enough to cut your wrists
You’ve got desperation in your eyes
It’s in your reflection
Who you despise
You want to be someone else
Who you are, makes you unwell
You’re dying but you figure
Everyone else is dying too
So what does it matter
If you linger
Isn’t that what everyone else is doing anyway?
Meditation diaries: In which I just ramble and call it meditation diaries only because it was a ‘series’ I started…
Often life feels like you have this constant ‘thing’ chasing you. Be it the Depression, the anxiety the overwhelmingness that seems to come simply from having Autism. I don’t want to call it a black dog, that’s just…insulting to black dogs. Quite frankly if I did have a black dog following me I’d probably be pretty happy with the black dog (unless it was an aggressive dog following me to attack me of course).
Not sure why people use that black dog metaphor, especially when we supposedly love dogs so much. Why would you call Depression or anything else like it ‘the black dog that follows me’? Seems a rather strange one to me. Perhaps it should be clarified that it’s a rabid black dog. In which case that would certainly be depressing because that dog is really fucking ill and will need to be put down.
And dying dogs are a very depressing idea.
I went to a cardiac clinic today to check on my heart. I was overdue my heart check-up anyway but the reason I went today was that I have been having palpitations.
And the truth is the older I get the more aware I’m becoming of the fact my heart condition isn’t ‘cured’ and never will be. Not that I ever thought it would be cured, but the point is the older I get the more the risks of further complications with my heart go up a notch.
And that’s from a heart that was already very much at risk as a child.
It’s gotten to the point where I’m either thankful I haven’t started having heart failure yet, and thus actually appreciating life.
But then there are the other moments when it’s all I can think about, “Shit, my heart is gonna fail, my heart is gonna fail! It’s going to fucking fail!”
And then to conflict that I have the depression that sometimes tells me, “You’re better off dead anyway,” but then that ends up being quite relaxing because then I just sort of start relaxing into this state of mind where “Welp, my heart might start to fail, but whatever. Who cares.”
I know ultimately that my life expectancy is shorter than average.
Some people use that sort of fact to their advantage. They use it as a means to appreciate every day more because their life really is short!
But I struggle with that.
Because the world is often so overwhelming to me. I always feel like a sort of fish out of water trying to navigate through life and social interactions.
This isn’t really a woe is me post. It looks it though.
I mean what I am trying to say is that I do appreciate some aspects a lot more the more I come to the realisation I’m at least maybe early middle age in terms of my heart condition and life expectancy? I mean I could be totally wrong. I could defy the statistics. And last longer than expected
Or
I could die tonight. I could die tomorrow. Or next week or whenever.
And yea sure it can help put things into perspective.
Like when some arsehole screams at you for no reason that makes sense and you’re thinking, “You fucking prick,” you take a breath and you think “Well, what’s the use arguing. We’re all gonna be dead one day anyway. So why argue with a person who won’t even listen to a word you say anyway?”
But I find another part of me, the part of me that is like a terrier with a bone, he wants to grip that bone and he wants to never let it fucking go.
As with all terriers, he’s fucking cute.
But he’s also an angry cunt who barks. Too fiercely.
Currently, I appreciate Jays (birds) and yea, all other birds actually. And dogs. I love dogs. And did I tell you I love Jays?
But I’ve also got some things bugging me.
Too much is changing at once. The local council are changing things. Support is changing. Nothing feels in its place and it feels like my brain is being electrocuted. My life doesn’t feel in it’s place.
And that screaming prick. And others response to it all. “Just ignore him,” Well thats all well and good but I ignore the person 90% of the time. I’m not a fucking brick.
But what really, really, really grinds my fucking gears…
All the responsibility is being put on my shoulders to ignore them. What about putting some responsibility at his door?
I sound like a sibling who’s younger brother or sister gets away with everything, don’t I?
*sighs*
I try to set out to be the image of myself I have inside my head. And I’m always falling short of it.
I’m not a duck either. I can’t let things just let it go like water off a ducks back. What kind of oil would I use to make that ‘water’ go off my back? I don’t have a preen gland that produces oil to make it just drip right off me.
Which is partly why I fall short of my ideal self because I wish to be a duck. If only to have a corkscrew shaped penis.
Goodbye – lyrics
In the storm
I gather myself
Pull my heart
And these strings
They call my veins
Like barbed wire
Around my throat
I black out again
I know there is nothing
Wait-ing
On the other side
I’ve seen it
The darkness
Thats never ending
No lighthouse
No life jacket
Just the waves and I
Take these strings
They call my veins
Like barbed wire
Wrapping around my throat
I black out again
I’m a monster
Deep inside
But you’re ugly
Just like me
So come with me
And step inside
The eye of the storm
Let it take us
Just you and I
Take these strings
They call our veins
Like barbed wire
Around our throats
Blacking out again
And I only wish
I could have said it sooner
Goodbye
I wish I could’ve said it sooner
Goodbye
And my heart
Is thrashing in the ocean
And my lungs
Are filled with too much emotion
I’m barely even breathing
I wish I could have said it sooner
Goodbye
*Note I can’t write music, can’t sing. If anyone wants to try putting it to music give it a try, and let me know about it.
*another Note. Yes the lyrics about veins and strings is inspired by the song Bleed from Cold “Take all these strings They call my veins Wrap them around Every fucking thing”