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And what?
My anxiety sits next to me & it is not small & I am not capable of bottling it up & putting it on shelf, it would shatter the jar & collapse the shelf & I have to live with the fact that it’s not something you can just put away & that’s it always present & it’s always there & that I have to ignore it & contradict it & have to deal with it actively trying to ruin every shred of fucking happiness I have felt & I think I felt & should I have felt it? & my anxiety isn’t some entity I can kick out my house & block the number of & I can put in little ear plugs shaped like pills & those little ear plugs will just dull out that one specific droning some of the time & then I’ll notice that the other thing next to me is telling me to kill myself & the earplugs don’t work on that (they amplify it & that’s so weird) & it makes some pretty compelling arguments & that’s really scary & so I take out my ear buds out so I can drown that out with my anxiety counteracting those arguments & sometimes they synch up & that’s even better & I’m just *letting* them chip away at me & I’m chipping away at me until there’s nothing left & what isn’t left? & in addition & also & including & / & / &
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Nov 23, 2022
Like a Broken Record
Continue, maintain, attempt to preserve something that cannot be kept while lamenting the fact it isn’t possible. / Spend your whole life obsessed with the mystery of death & have it be the final answer to your fruitless questions. / We’re all in this fever dream together, but everyone is in their individual beds asleep & that’s where they will always be.
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Nov 11, 2022
Growing
I am not an empty vase for you to collect your dead flowers in.
1
May 13, 2017
Star Gazing
You are your whole universe / Infinite & complex / With vast space for
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Mar 10, 2016
Whirring
Time creeps by here / Lazily waving goodbye, dear / And it slides agonizingly near
4
Jan 26, 2016
Ambient
We ride down streets I don't know / With Spanish rock on the stereo / The street lamps are strange shades
11
Aug 2, 2015
Calligraphy
I'm so angry at you / For what you do to me / As if you could ever see
11
Jul 25, 2015
Eos
You were shining in the shade / As the dusk began to fade / I had to turn to you and say,
11
Jul 14, 2015
uninhabitable
I am not built for love / I can't keep you warm / The fireplace in my chest
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Jul 10, 2015
Almost a Year
So many things have happened since I last spoke / I've been flickering in and out of vision / Like someone with a box of matches
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Jun 13, 2015
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