It's February 14, at 5 in the afternoon And I'm sick. Sick to my stomach; lagoons of acid loom in the foreground. Sick in my legs; jello laced with electric jolts trying to break free. Sick up in my head; my pulse pounds so loud everything else is gone. It's just that relentless, frantic drum. ThumpthumpTHUMPthumpthump.
The overwhelming desire to curl up in a shaking ball, to squeeze the illness all away, is nearly impossible to ignore.
It takes the strength of a old world deity to remain intact. To hold the phone. To keep my voice from shaking.
As I talk to you. As I soothe your pain. As I fix your problems.
Those problems that are my own, in a perverse mime cry. Yet I can't say a word about my demons to you. Why? Because my demons have your name printed on their grey brows. And that simply wouldn't do, now would it?
It's February 14, at 5 in the afternoon And I'm sick. Sick to my stomach; lagoons of acid loom in the foreground. Sick in my legs; jello laced with electric jolts trying to break free. Sick up in my head; my pulse pounds so loud everything else is gone. It's just that relentless, frantic drum. ThumpthumpTHUMPthumpthump.
But I do my best not to show it. And you believe my farce.