Altered States, Society, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, The Shower Accident 11/14/25

Catching Up With Falling Down

She was hungry

And her neck and head hurt.

Getting up hurt,

Staying up hurt.

Thinking hurt.

Needing love and yearning burt.

Wanting hurt.

Not having hurt.

Lack of any options hurt.

Striving now felt pointless.

Purposeless.

Her father warned depression could come from concussion.

But that wasn’t why she hurt.

She hurt because the accidents hurt her and she couldn’t have what her soul and heart wanted because they hurt her.

She couldn’t reclaim her self determination’s independence or feel free – only disepowerment.

She couldn’t have tbe man she wanted who reawakened her to things long buried.

She couldn’t have the dreams that had kept her vital despite setbacks.

She was being rendered obsolete to society not just from arbitrary age bias, but because she couldn’t perform on the treadmill, any.more.

She was becoming irrelevant even to herself because she could no longer single-handedly provide for her family’s – or even now, her own – survival.

Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, The Shower Accident 11/14/25

I Was Afriad

After the concussion
My arms became weak

My hands and face had
Increased numb patterns

Body and limb discoordination
Was knocked back into tailspin

Neck instability meant any movement
Upon elliptical pulled on brain injury

So now I do even less at the gym
To allow myself to try to catch up

Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, The Shower Accident 11/14/25

Dust To Dust

I’ve got nothing to strive for
No more umph in my motor

I always had manifestation
As my high-driving priority

Even if I had to wait
I knew it was there

I could feel it’s pressence
Just like I feel you, my love

It’s very discouraging after all of that
To find myself flat-stopped, diverted

No more climbing
No more aspiring

Because I’m just
So damn hurting

Nothing seems attainable anymore
It’s just slipping through my fingers

Altered States, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, The Shower Accident 11/14/25

Carrying The Burden

“It becomes more clear that my neck, shoulders, and spine have become more destabilized since the concussion accident as muscles torque-torsion into spasmed misalignments carrying loads that they weren’t meant to be hoisting.”