Altered States

Self Skew

“I have no idea how to get out from under the weight of self categoruzing when I am struggling to overcome so much and look haggard.

I’m not 40, back when I just reached a new prime – yet everything got dumped onto its head.

Since then, I’ve been in some version of a constant battle in a war that never seems to end.”

Altered States

Snappy Comebacks

“An irritaing commercial comes on with the whiney voice saying, “why does the blahblahblah still yadayadayada?” in an attempt to garner my undeserved attention.

What I want to know is why has intentional lisping of good, solid language and idiotic ignorant verbosities’ waste of precious quality time become deemed as appropriate for advertising?”

Altered States

The Intervention

“I remember asking to be helped, to be set free – and got disrupted, spaces propelled from my body into another parallel unuverse.

I keep trying to call them back to me, but they are stuck – and trying to keep going forward brings pain and gasping without their being retrieved.

Tensing, I can’t help but keep cycling between attempting to rest and renewed struggling.

Am I supposed to just lean back and let arms wrap around me from where my pieces have gone to?

If I cannot call them back, maybe they will claim me – and pull me into where they’ve been propelled to.

Maybe there could be a better life for me.

I keep feeling something, somewhere calling…”