Running circles in my mind
Trying to connect the dots
Chasing my friends
Doing cartwheels in my sleep
Dancing in and out of time
Trying to untangle
A pendulum of knots
Over and over again
Never finding my way back
To the frame of
My own mind
Slipping and sliding
Past the point of no return
Furiously frustrated
From the void of reasoning
With a snake
That I befriend
And sway and sing
Along with
In harmony and rhythms
I never knew existed before
Memories of broken glass
Shattered by pain
All my energy is sapped
From a life
That I once knew
Hopelessly lost
Perpetually satisfied
By the pure defiant persistence
Of my resilient heart and mind
I fail to fall down
And be taken under
By the sorrows of my past
