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2d
Pulse frozen—  
iced veins mid-break,  
brain flooding with fragments  
of fractured light and wired noise.

Every color comes too loud.  
Every breath enters sharp-edged.  
The sky is too close.  
The floor doesn’t hold.

I stagger through a maze  
built of memory and migraine—  
walls shift shape  
each time I blink.

I am too many signals,  
too little pattern.  
A scream poised  
inside a prism.

Please—  
just one thought  
that doesn’t bloom sideways.

Just one silence  
that doesn’t shimmer wrong.
Author Note – Pressure Kaleidoscope  
This piece captures the disorientation of overstimulation—when thought and sensation blur into sharp fragments. It's about trying to hold shape while everything refracts around you. I didn’t write it to explain—I wrote it to survive the moment it came from.
Written by
Sam Riley  36/M
(36/M)   
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