I so often get lost on the train
my mind wonders – to strange and thoughtful places,
I seep through the carriages and people like a gliding ghost
half existent in transient memory,
a translucent thin veil membrane separating me
from this reality,
and the shifting worlds of imagination.
My imagination overwhelms me often, it is powerful and I feel lost
in my internal worlds and can't connect to anything external from my own process,
my own neurosis – I want to get beyond my neurosis,
my fears, my stupid little set backs.
Fear itself becomes a huge beast in my mind,
a multi-limbed Kali staring at me with half crazed eyes,
meeting me with the intention of true chaos – a challenge.
I wish to climb the ladder that suddenly appears and become myself;
Infinite in direction and potential
I want to love myself and be loved.
I want to love,
I want to love.
I stare out of the window again, streets, signs and derelict buildings
zoom and melt into one huge encompassing space,
one straight up urban landscape.
And as I am enveloped in this concrete world
via the mechanistic medium of train
I wonder:
/
Will I ever feel better?
will I ever feel peace?
Will I ever know love?
will I ever understand?
and do I really want to?
Truth is such a hard pill to swallow in the end.
I imagine anyway, I imagine.
Do you ?
Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 4:26 PM UTC
I so often get lost on the train
my mind wonders – to strange and thoughtful places,
I seep through the carriages and people like a gliding ghost
half existent in transient memory,
a translucent thin veil membrane separating me
from this reality,
and the shifting worlds of imagination.
My imagination overwhelms me often, it is powerful and I feel lost
in my internal worlds and can't connect to anything external from my own process,
my own neurosis – I want to get beyond my neurosis,
my fears, my stupid little set backs.
Fear itself becomes a huge beast in my mind,
a multi-limbed Kali staring at me with half crazed eyes,
meeting me with the intention of true chaos – a challenge.
I wish to climb the ladder that suddenly appears and become myself;
Infinite in direction and potential
I want to love myself and be loved.
I want to love,
I want to love.
I stare out of the window again, streets, signs and derelict buildings
zoom and melt into one huge encompassing space,
one straight up urban landscape.
And as I am enveloped in this concrete world
via the mechanistic medium of train
I wonder:
/
Will I ever feel better?
will I ever feel peace?
Will I ever know love?
will I ever understand?
and do I really want to?
Truth is such a hard pill to swallow in the end.
I imagine anyway, I imagine.
Do you ?
I wrote this ages ago when I was living and working in London, capturing the feeling of feeling a bit lost on the DLR train.
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