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Metaphor for life

Fear and panic sweep over me.

I need to move

but I'm paralyzed by my need for normalcy.

One pop of a pill and it will drift away,

and I will sleep.

 

But sleep is for the weak,

or is sleep for the week?

That's what my body

bounces back and forth between.

There is no middle.

No start.

Eventually an End.

 

The inner meaning of desire

bounces from my heart to my head,

as if it is the ball in a pin ball machine.

I try to fight off this anxious feeling,

though it is a chemical imbalance in my brain.

Why do I fight with the chemicals in my body?

 

I fight to feel normal.

I fight to not rely on a simple pop of a pill that my doctor gives me.

She tells me to take it when I need it, she trusts me.

Sometimes I feel that trust is too much.

Because this anxiety is a metaphor for life,

and I know that problems cannot be solved, by one simple solution.

I fight to be strong.

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Written by
jacqui
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Published
Jan 9, 2014
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1/9/2014

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