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A Moment of Relapse

It's horrible how these things keep happening accidentally.

 

One moment you feel that the darkness has gone away

And that there's no need to fight anymore,

But in the next second you're curled up on the floor of your

Cupboard with the door locked shut, sharing air

With the monsters hiding there,

All just trying to find some small sense of serenity.

 

One moment you're laughing with a coworker at the brash

Reaction of your manager and then

In the next second you're in the break room, calling up

Your old friend whom you lost in the darkness,

Begging them to cut the wire from around your throat

Make it stop hurting (your lungs are burning).

 

One moment you're demanding the earth, the ocean

To give you an out or some kind of answer

To why these things keep happening, why you're suffering

With this stinging boxing ring where you're in both

Corners, riling your other self up

Only to be tapped out after your first step towards the light.

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Written by
kk-1
Australian
Published
Jun 29, 2013
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What's that, you say? A poem with rhythm? Why, it seems so! Golly.

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