gooby-goober

Heartstrings A beautiful mystery But also the most fantastic instrument you’ll ever bear witness to Hold me and Strum your fingers Gently across my heart; Play me the song of love, The melodies of passion I know A few strings are Broken, missing, and perhaps a little out of tune Please be patient with me Someday, I promise you our song will echo Through the universe Until entropy erodes our memory

The wind whistles in my ears And the ocean plays tug of war With the shore And I am the rope My body screams in agony The tension is excruciating Or at least, that’s how it appears I feel nothing My mind is simply bearing witness As the waves crash in, pulling on every ligament and tendon As the shore holds on, gripping my skin with shattered shells The wind sings in my ears My body is just a game A toy To the forces of nature And I can do nothing But apathetically spectate The destruction of my form From a distance just hopeless enough To not do a thing about it My body cries over the betrayal Of my mind The wind screams in my ears

I wake up to the sound of rain But I realize, it's just my thoughts Hitting the pavement of my subconscious Accompanied by the distant thunder of my memories I don't have an umbrella No rain boots, no jacket However my phone buzzes STAY INDOORS What's the use in that, When the dark, dangerous clouds swirl in the ceiling above you? It only takes minutes for the water to reach my bed And just a second longer than that For it to reach my head It leaks from my eyes As the lightning of my trauma Paralyzes my heart (unfortunately missing my mind) As I sink deeper and deeper In the flood of what you’d done to me I hold my breath and try to