Category: Altered States
Death Struggles
“I keep trying to reanimate how I survived before – but I can’t…those ways don’t apply, anymore.”
Discontinuity
“Being unable to work flies into the face of the American Dream.”
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
Wiped Out
“I must try to sleep more before my day begins….
I am deliriously exhausted.”
(The World I Know – Collective Soul)
To The Last Drop
“Any money that I get is usually limited, so I try to spread it around to hit as many needed zones, which results in there being none left – but much gets attended to.”
(Jaws – Sleep Token, Live in South Carolina)
Don’t Jolt Me Like That
“It Hurts.”
(Blue Collar Man/Long Nights – Styx)
Song repost from 2023
Frequency
“Constant strategizing to avoid catastrophe and maintain functionality.”
(You Better Run – Pat Benatar)
(Treat Me Right – Pat Benatar)
Renegotiating
Sanity
I Need To
“Try to sleep more…”
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.”
A Virus Among Us
“I think that the virus my family has had for two weeks is trying to get to me.”
Like A Lion’s Mane
Golden red-silver filagree
Coiling taught as if brittle
In soft to wiring spiraling
Framing as grows thicker
Due to daily washing and
Blow dry scalp prevention
Since summer’s awareness
Floating like a haloed cloud
Why
“Can’t I sleep?”
A Moment Of Normalcy
“Yesterday, thanks to an investing client’s generosity, I had a little bit of funding to go out and obtain a few special items as Christmas gifts for my children and their beloveds.
I took a pause in the evening as bit a large, satisfying mouthful from a too-long-awaited Carl’s Jr Triple Western Cheeseburger (TM) lettuce wrap with double-blended Pink Drink (TM) topped with whipped cream sip soon to follow, and felt and gave thanks for the timely ‘abundance’ blessing.”
(Feel – Two Lanes)
We Must Be Careful
“Regarding what we allow ourselves to be influenced by…
We must be constantly double-checking to make sure that these influences align with our authenticity in this time of virtual realities – before we buy into what they are selling.”
(Sunshine Down Dualoguc, Original)
Positive Reinforcement
“Reassurance that comes from being around other people who’s brain waves track well with mine.”
(Got To Give It Up – Marvin Gaye)
Sex Appeal
“I don’t feel like I’ve got anything going my way in this category, currently.”
Literally! (Fell On Black Days – Soundgarden)
Song repost from March 2022
I Am
Managing.
Puffer Fish
“Dang-nab it!
The concussion has made my body swell, again!”
“Derezzed”
(Pneuma – Tool)
Backed Into A Corner
“I was not responding well as of today from the concussion when getting other people’s help as they were pressuring.
I was either dealing with their trying to be time efficient and going in too many directions at once – spinning me in circles – and/or wasting my time, etc..”
The Question Is
“Can you self regulate?”
—
(Re the maelstrom that descends when engaging resource acquisition processes due to brain injury)
“There Can Be Only One”
“I now have two kinds of brain injury – and boy, let me tell you how fun this is navigating the shattered internal stratosphere!”
—
(Title reference to movie Highlander and the struggle to reclaim primary power)
Brain Injury Gaslighting
“An advocate for brain injury support tried helping me today, and finished our appointment by giving me the number to call my next errand item.
After several times of copy and pasting the number, dialing, and getting my own voicemail, I finally realized that she had given me my own number by accident!”
—
(Re: object identification shutdowns)
Look Here
It is about finding truth in expression
Hopefully with some gentile elegance
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
What Does This Mean?
“More fuzz on the bench, please.”
—
(Like at a football game…dreamstate concepts)
The Love You Want
She kept searching through as
Lived parts of dream scenarios
Until one evening, she stopped
And opened a sliding glass door
As she stepped back, he suddenly
Appeared, stepping into the room
—-
(Title of a Sleep Token song)
(All Mixed Up – 311)
Like Cream Cheese
Whipped Cream + Sour Cream
(Hang On – Le Youth & Gordi, Sam Parker Remix)
Phase Shifting
A response happened through a dream
When an upper professional bartended
We had met before teamed on a job
Where before he had supervised me
But the work was done at this party
And polite masks could be removed
My face alighted when I recognized him
But his hardened from purpled passion
He came close as whispered wet-harshly
Hinting at unspeakables he’d do to body
But his sexual tension flowed off me
Because he was not the one I wanted
Upon realizing I was a disinclined male I
Then introduced him to one more suited
Sick & Tired
Of masking
My passion
As I keep fighting
To reclaim myself
(Automatic – Lane 8 & Solomon Grey)
This Time Of My Life
I had pushed through hardships
Carrying too much tension that
Was supposed to find release and
Began to right before car accident
My asking for an intervention was
Seeking help from the stress load
Not requesting next level struggles
Which now concussion compounds!
But hey, hey what can I say – it’s not
Like I had things I still wanted to do
(Wait – I did!)
And true, true I was tired from youth but
I didn’t want vital energy taken from me!
(How rude!)
I’m still going forward because I endure
But I’m more frustrated now by burdens
Making it even harder to create income
Let alone walk with confidence in smile
And the worst part is that there
Seems to be no getting beyond it!
(Ayla – Sultan + Shepard)
Emotions
Exacerbate with prolonged unknowns.
(Run – Lane 8 & Kasablanca VIP)
Right There
That’s where slippage happens
They say taking drugs will help
But unless they are also healing
Their rides take us other places
Do what you need that is right for you
But for me medication’s been negative
No More Losses
I can’t afford effects of the ride by
Taking drugs, drinks, or medication
That would cause any imbalance in
How I manage emotional currents
Because I am still captaining my ship
With people dependent upon strength
If I break down during financial hardships
The wreckage would become unavoidable
So therefore I do not have the ‘luxury’ of
Being someone who has ‘medical needs’
