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Ellen Joyce
Poems
Mar 2014
Ricochet
The sinking has returned too fast.
I knew sanity wouldn't last -
but madness is here much too soon.
Electric amnesia returns to me.
Cacophonous thoughts breaking free
tear my feet from trembling ground.
My contradictory conscience
******* utter nonsense
across the face of my clean slate.
Peel back my shimmering rib cage,
see insomnia's grip of rage
still my dark heart into hurting.
Plunge me into freezing waters
where caught apathetic breath blurs
treading to sinking to drowning.
And I'm caught in the crawl spaces
between the in between places -
wretch to my opprobrious mind.
Not if but when
sayeth the doc
to the tune of the ticking clock
willing me to wave the white flag
Madness is a graceless game.
#fear
#depression
#illness
#anxiety
#frustration
#failure
#crazy
#shame
#madness
#abyss
#disappointment
#bipolar
#sanity
#work
#relapse
#mania
#giddy
#buzzy
#humiliation
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