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Jun 2018 · 233
Cerebral Storm
Alex B Jun 2018
A savage storm was brooding
Right up inside my head
Winds were sadly slowly forming, yet
A word was never said

And when the weather matter gathered,
Unleashing fatal form
Drowning out my considerable existence
An eternal mighty storm!

Sodden skin and sunken soul,
My tangible testimony
Combat battle with myself
Was dragged out and lonely

Suddenly winds ceased to blow
Alleviated, parched—my soul;
The eye was fleeting, this I knew,
Dread to penetrate the whole

And then I saw the sunrise,
A pleasantly different form
In the context of epic battle
With my cerebral storm
The first poem I ever wrote (16)
Jun 2018 · 166
Spark: a haiku
Alex B Jun 2018
You can’t fake a spark
But I miss our fireworks
We lit up the night
Jun 2018 · 211
closer to fine
Alex B Jun 2018
finally
feeling like I can sit here
doing anything
without
comparing.

This song is making
me feel at peace
I am talking to you
you are my friend
because we are interacting
and I’ll block out the voices
and you are saying things to my face

Over and over
Crimson and Clover
i am here.
Jun 2018 · 155
Depression question
Alex B Jun 2018
I need some answers now
because I’m running out of steam
Is this a daunting reality
or a terrible ******* dream
Why is there so little known about depression?
Jun 2018 · 448
Aftertaste
Alex B Jun 2018
I used to be no good at taking pills
Couldn’t even swallow a tiny Advil
Dad made me practice with M&Ms and Skittles
But I’ve gotten much more practice since I’ve been ill

Maybe it’s the subtle taste or the horrible smell
That makes the remedy for my cerebral hell
I can’t even begin to show or tell
How badly I wish I was well

Depression, what a horrible thing to catch
Feeling like one in a bad batch
Are these pills a remedy or just a small patch
Or better yet, has evil met its match?

So give me your devil
And just in case you’re skeptical
I’ll raise you my chemicals
Chalky, fishy, colorful, inedible
Jun 2018 · 209
no choice
Alex B Jun 2018
if only
we had a say
in what happens to us
Jun 2018 · 163
Little things
Alex B Jun 2018
I don’t want to hear about what you would do to me
If you were here
Or I were there, I want you to tell me
About the way I smile when I’m close to falling asleep
I want to hear all the little things you keep

My laugh when you tell a funny joke
Hand on your chest, arm around your neck
The way I yelled at the morning alarm
Just to stay in bed
The way you say I’m too **** cute
When I tell you 'don’t leave' in a way you can’t refute
Jun 2018 · 240
Pink roses
Alex B Jun 2018
I don't remember telling you
That pink roses were my favorite
But you knew
Even sent some too
One thing I do remember
He never had a clue

Thank you
Jun 2018 · 183
bad timing
Alex B Jun 2018
if i were closer to you
and closer to me
maybe
we could be happy
Jun 2018 · 194
Sheets
Alex B Jun 2018
I don’t want to wash my sheets
because after all this time
they smell like me
finally
some remnant to keep
of me
and sanity
Alex B Jun 2018
There’s something I want to tell you
No, really tell you
Without fear of you not saying it back
Or you thinking it’s the
gratefulness-of-you-being-there-during-my-worst time talking crap

But there’s things my broken brain wants to tell you first, like
I’m sorry, this isn’t the way I planned us
You and me, so brief before the storm hit
And I’m sorry you’re the boy who had to meet this side of me
But I think maybe you’re the best one to handle it

And God, I miss you so much it hurts
How you make me feel
Like the brightest star in the sky
As if we are thunder and lightning
Like I have wings and can fly

I run out of rhymes and words
When I think of us two
But what haunts me the most
Is not saying
I love you
A poem I will never send You
Jun 2018 · 179
FAQ
Alex B Jun 2018
FAQ
If I told you everything was wrong,
would you make it all okay?

If I couldn’t move a muscle,
would you lie with me today?

If I told you to attend the funeral in my brain,
would you obey?

If I told you I do dying exceptionally well,
Sylvia, what would you say?

If I gave you my brain to study,
how much would you pay?

If I told you I had terrible thoughts,
would you make them go away?

If I told you I was more ill than ever before,
would you promise me you’d stay?
Jun 2018 · 162
Spilling myself to you
Alex B Jun 2018
Words flow so easily
from my lips
and fingertips
to you
Jun 2018 · 500
Incognito to the beach
Alex B Jun 2018
The world can’t see me like this.
Not again.
The people who look, a given,
but certainly not the ocean—
the moon, the sunset, the tide.
They have known me in a different life.

You took my talk as truth,
and proposed a compromise.
So I donned an unfamiliar sweatshirt,
a black cap and glasses.
Though you had nothing to hide from
By any stretch or reach
You and me went incognito to the beach.
Jun 2018 · 245
Major Depressive Disorder
Alex B Jun 2018
I live with this outdated illness
That keeps following me around
Just when I think it’s gone for good
It creeps up without a sound

If you only knew how it killed me
But cruelly kept me alive
You would know that waking up
Is as good as fighting to survive

Where did I go this time
And how long will it take to find me
Will these pills give me the will to live
Or how about all the ******* therapy

Sometimes I wish it was cancer, or a tumor,
Something to prove I’m not well
Some redeeming affliction
To paint a portrait of this sickly hell

And when it hits the way it does,
Life gets put on the shelf
What kind of illness is this, where the
Main symptom is losing yourself

— The End —