I have been
stuck
on this rubberband for days
I keep pulling
extending
and stretching it
back
I quickly release it
until I hear it
snap
It hit me quite hard
up against my wrist
The minutes and seconds
are raking again
The strands of my hair
on the ground
I feel
lonely
Or even worse
Trivial
Like a shallow river
in the street
After several days of rainfall
I'm an overbanking creek
I flood the town
As if I were the ocean but
there was never
any depth
There was never
any substance
to this interest
Because I
Never felt important
And so I lie flat
on my bed
Until I let
loneliness
Do open heart surgery
It makes a mess of me
And then it stitches me up
Necessity has the teeth of a dog
But I let it burn through
And in my own dissonance
I mother significance
Swarming out of my chest
Until the rubberband breaks
Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 12:34 PM UTC
I have been
stuck
on this rubberband for days
I keep pulling
extending
and stretching it
back
I quickly release it
until I hear it
snap
It hit me quite hard
up against my wrist
The minutes and seconds
are raking again
The strands of my hair
on the ground
I feel
lonely
Or even worse
Trivial
Like a shallow river
in the street
After several days of rainfall
I'm an overbanking creek
I flood the town
As if I were the ocean but
there was never
any depth
There was never
any substance
to this interest
Because I
Never felt important
And so I lie flat
on my bed
Until I let
loneliness
Do open heart surgery
It makes a mess of me
And then it stitches me up
Necessity has the teeth of a dog
But I let it burn through
And in my own dissonance
I mother significance
Swarming out of my chest
Until the rubberband breaks
