Upside

Life is full of ups and downs, whether you are struggling or not, whether you are healthy or not. Even when things are going well it can often feel like we are not truly happy or truly satisfied. Sometimes there are things in our past that are hard to let go of, be in memories or patterns of behavior. We try to rationalize and understand the paths we take and try to find a way to stop self-sabotaging.

Upside Downed

Cobble together this abstract

Extract the essence of that

Mad cap

Untapped

And unrivaled

Unraveled and beguiled

By these self-same stimulants

Laying by the wayside

Waylaid

And yet still upside downed

Sewing together these doubts

Into a parachute to bring me down

Until I'm re-acclimated

I cannot ever get used to the sound

Of finding someone else

Interstitial assimilation

Still caught up in the simulation

Waiting in line for the vaccination

Pressed against subtle manipulation

Reactionary intimate annihilation

Immune for the moment of this release

Breathlessly I have to let go

Of every instance of your name

And the memories that echo

In oceans of these neural flames

Cutting together these jigsaw thoughts

Images of a newly worthy fire

Devils fossilized in the details

Fill in the gaps in this

And let life find a way inside out

Unsullied and betrothed

To a bride made up of lies

Liquid thunder swims like smoke

In lungs left carbonized

Longing to sail into sunset eyes

Piecemeal I remember

The way that feeling went

The colors in the waters

The ripples underneath

And what it might have meant

To meet the rapids with heart beating

Ears filled up with blood

When egos fully fled

And the butterflies worth keeping

Got lost inside my head

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But I'd pay any cost

Tectonic heart, subduction mental

To keep from getting lost

Sedimentary soul still sentimental

At the shoreline where we bled

In fingernails left pulverized

Bit the bones and kept on biting

Anything to get at that sweet

Marshmallow marrow

'Cause I've always been the easy one

Now swollen with regret

Falling into visions dark

Coming entirely unhinged

Apocalyptic in intent

Claiming I cannot see this fate

Unresolved to make an end

Yet still loosening the harnesses

Safety nets collapsing as I begin

To burn these bridges at both ends

Mosaic of every pathetic word unrequited

Another reason to end this quiet

I've made a hell here by the river

With stones under these eyelids

Filling up with rocks

There's more of gravel than of grave about you

Under-cooked and half-cocked

A mistake made up of straws of the last sort

But I've already etched the runes

Of futures yet to come

Puzzling over roads untraveled

In circles colliding with myself

Weighed down by all this anti-matter

Superposition of atoms smashing

And still just upside downed

Art Auto-Generated by AI Wombo Dream App