I so often get lost on the train my mind wonders – to strange and thoughtful places, I seep through the carriages and people like a gliding ghost half existent in transient memory,
a translucent thin veil membrane separating me from this reality, and the shifting worlds of imagination.
My imagination overwhelms me often, it is powerful and I feel lost in my internal worlds and can't connect to anything external from my own process,
my own neurosis – I want to get beyond my neurosis, my fears, my stupid little set backs.
Fear itself becomes a huge beast in my mind, a multi-limbed Kali staring at me with half crazed eyes, meeting me with the intention of true chaos – a challenge.
I wish to climb the ladder that suddenly appears and become myself; Infinite in direction and potential
I want to love myself and be loved. I want to love, I want to love.
I stare out of the window again, streets, signs and derelict buildings zoom and melt into one huge encompassing space, one straight up urban landscape.
And as I am enveloped in this concrete world via the mechanistic medium of train
I wonder: / Will I ever feel better? will I ever feel peace? Will I ever know love? will I ever understand? and do I really want to?
Truth is such a hard pill to swallow in the end. I imagine anyway, I imagine.
Do you ?
I wrote this ages ago when I was living and working in London, capturing the feeling of feeling a bit lost on the DLR train.