in•tel•lect*
/'in(t)l, ekt/
noun
“the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract or academic matters.”
the human mind
is such an utterly remarkable thing.
100 billion neurons
firing
inside your skull.
axons and dendrites,
azaleas and daisies
the tide, and the shore
and every breaking
wave
of
grey matter
that they'll ask you to share.
but if you keep it to yourself,
my God, you'll dissolve
into the nothingness of mist
and explode into a perfect array
of agony
and disappear, like
sparks
in the night.
“I know what it's like,” he said.
“What?” she whispered,
looking to him sharply
“I know what it's like,”
his haunted eyes glistened
in the darkness,
“to be afraid of your own mind.”
…