Angst
Category: 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
Overworking Adrenals
“Like bleeding out energetically without needed stop-gap filler to meet, feed, and reset their function.”
Dietary Advice
“I will be speaking soon with a specialist to see what I can supplement my diet with, though I do not expect to make major changes at this point of restabilizing.”
(Breathe – CamelPhat, Dark Matter Edit)
Countoured Strength
“It is satisfying to feel my muscle strength and form returning along lines that I’ve been re-conjuring.”
Damocles – Sleep Token Clip, Rock Im Park)
Spinal Cord Injury
“There’s been no denying, just realigning.”
Denial’s Benefits
These first two years since the accident
Have been about gaining distance away
From modes of tipping on edge of collapse
Which I would not let override endurance
Thus internal reroutings smack into walls
When continuing to push past allowances
With mainframe crashings from pressure
As keep reanimating limbs toward future
Mystery Rupture
Something unmentioned has been
A bulging vessel inner pinky finger
Several weeks ago since I noticed
Unsure how long it’s been injured
Could have happened lifting any
Edge with angled weight cutting
I’ve been ignoring it to let heal as
Occasionally acts as trigger finger
Because the pain upon touching
Was swollen and pulse-alarming
Connective tissues and associated
Don’t have tensile tenacity as prior
Apparently,
“The few things that I choose to try to do on any given day are more than I ought to be attempting.
But I used to be able to do so much more!”
Still Frozen
I guess I’ve been in denial
Piano strains my brainwaves
While guitar is neuro-untenable
I just keep thinking if I believe…
Frustration
“Because I need more help to overcome all of this.”
Small Stepping
There are exercises and nutrients that
With time and resources could benefit
But if I have just one unit for any effort
I must be careful as to where focusing
Down Time
I got hurt again yesterday early eve
Simply walking and snagging shoe
Tripped carriage flinging extremes
Tore into junctures where repairing
Flatt-End
“Cortisol haze from stress makes chest a heavy weight almost feeling like suffocating and illness in the mornimg.
It likely doesn’t help that I must drink caffeine mixtures daily in order to be able to think and function…
I refuse to take pharmaceutical medications that will leave a worsened effect while they’d claim to address my symptoms.”
Nobility
What’s the point of appointed rank
If one does not embody meaning?
Seizing The Day
They’d carry me upon a palanquin throne
But what use would I have of this display?
I’ll ride my own steed if I cannot walk paths
And cry in pain at night when’ve gone away!
(Title of multiple meanings)
Struts
“When I lift anything with noticeable weight, this hyper-compresses hip joints where flex got blown out by the car’s impact.
I’m hoping to regain flex by training with a rebounder.
I anticipate many setbacks, but hopefully will ultimately triumph.”
Progress
I’d like to think
I am getting better
Despite slow progress
Where time stretches
And barely things change
Regarding injuries
More easy to notice
Additional damage
Than to define healing
In more subtler degrees
When symptoms convey
Negative reinforcements
Perhaps to ensure attention
Wisdom Bits From Hell’s Travels
When senses return to you
Carefully roll over to a better vantage
Pick out gravel from stinging wounds
Rinse them clean if can find water
Scrabble if you can to next levels
Even if only inch by inch
Dragging your broken carcass
Laughing maniacally
After the fall
Baring your teeth aggressively
At scavengers and predators
Letting them know
They’ll go down with you
Until you can make it to higher ground
Where the grass is green
And flowers are blooming
As birds and butterflys and other creatures
Evidence proof of The Garden
And you can begin to reclaim
Your humanity
Again
—
(Stark contrast to booklet, “Chicken Soup For The Soul”)
And Then One Day,
“She could walk just fine, again…”
Lacking “Norms”
There is no consistency that
I can rely on in these injuries
Zones are identified in variations
That intermittently work or worsen
Which keep putting me back into
States of great anxietal insecurity
Because I never know what I can
Count on in performance abilities
Add onto this that in trying to heal
New injuries occur in shift-adjusting
And their effect upon limbic systrm
Is like treading minefield explosions
Periods of “maybe I’m safe” occur
Then on into new crisis responses
(Bodhi Mandala – Desert Dwellers, Drumspyder Remix)
How It Feels
It’s mainly the lockdown
And warning impingings
Telling me my body
Cannot do as much
After already having
Pushed beyond limits
I’ll still get up and try by
Calculated workarounds
Dear Alex,
There are no words
For what I’m feeling
The trust needed
To rely upon you
To allow you to
Take on weight
How could I even give or
Know what to ask of you?
Provid-Ence
Being as it has all ultimately
Been up to me to guarantee
I only struggle harder now
For even smaller advances
Which honesty creates panic
When limbs need down time
New Patterns
It’s all I can do to
Step up to the old
Must Be Said
Waiting in bed to let
Body catch up to self
(Color Of Your Soul – GRIZ)
Lag
Recovering from work efforts
Vs.
Networking for more marketing
How It Works
Brief momentum
Dissipating relies
Upon regatherimg
Strength to push
Past Work Dream
I had a job under pressure, working my bootie off for so much less money, in a no-win, time-crunch situation.
But though I sweated and the timing was hectic, I could do it if paced myself – and I felt no pain with good muscle coordination.
It was nice in those dream moments to not be injured.
Merry-Go-Round
Spnning wheels
Over same tracks
Anything accomplished
Is just matter of opinion
Consumerism hunting
For this or that object
In day’s heat because
It is too hot to garden
Or to catch up on dishes
From broken dishwasher
Where ableism assumes
Shoulders have no limits
Dystopia
“My facial shadow profile is changing, as if I am somehow becoming cherubic – and I don’t know what to think or feel about this, except to observe it with bewilderment.”
Give & Take
Cupping can actually
Create abrassions in
The form of temporary
Red rashes like rosacea
Especially on the face that
Can say, “You what mate?”
And in a case with injuries
Muscle release destabilizes
Cupping
Attempting to smooth out
And reconnect micro-fascia
Youth
A young father slow-trot bouncing his 5-6 year-old daughter on his shoulders in play fun.
(Awww – but cringing, “Ouch!”)
(O [Fly On] – Coldplay, 1 Hour)
My Ankles Have Returned
“I have figured out ways to descrease ankle edema swelling.”
(The Line – Twenty One Pilots, From Arcane Season 2)
Repost from December 14, 2024
(A Forest – The Cure)
Traction
“I might be at last gaining…”
Inner Universe – Yoko Kanno ft. Origa, From Animation Ghost In The Shell”)
Suspended
Animation
(Vore – Sleep Token)
Into The Void
Maybe she was getting better
It’s a luxury to remove the self
From dependency upon society
When could be marked disabled
Titrating
The measure keeps up
Adjusts beleaguerement
Overwhelming to subdue
Flapping wings’ attempts
Dust clouds kicking rant
Of a life held face down
Kiss the ground
And be grateful
I WANT TO HEAL
“DA** IT!”
Flex
Something’s
Reactivating
Unwrapping
Fascial
Torsion
