One moment you are standing
in the mist,
the next you are setting
in a padded room.
You can hear scratching
from old memories
running through your mind,
reminding you of old times.
You start to fade,
black and white,
the static comes through,
now voices are calling you,
but from where?
You find yourself having tea
with your shadow,
it reminds you,
you forgot your shoes.
Looking down you see
your bare feet
and then the floor begins to move,
as your feet grow farther away,
anxiety set’s in.
Heart beating fast,
faster still,
you feel like running
but you can’t move.
You’re stiff as a tree,
you look down again
and you find you are a tree.
You go from a rooted bed
to a rooted ***,
so tight you feel like
you are chocking
on dirt felled air.
All this time you’ve been asleep,
dreaming you are
fighting with insanity.
© 2017 Amanda Shelton
I use to hear voices and have this same exact exceptance when I was younger. One difference though I wasn’t dreaming or asleep. The mind is a very powerful tool. I had to learn how to deal with my life and physical illness. Trust me you would feel the same if you slowly lost your ability to move and control your body. Once I learned how to deal with my anxiety the voices started to leave and I quite having this experience. I am glad I got through. I am grateful to be an adult. I always wanted responsibility. It feels so good to finally have what I wanted. Responsibility and my own home. I have been living on my own for seven years now. Yay! for me.