Thought, Unabridged

By John Moore •
“You’re quiet”
…
This means more than you know
more than I’ll tell you.
More than I’ll admit.
To myself.
To others.
My pain
bellows
silence.
I have blue hair
blue eyes
yet remain
invisible
dead inside
My thoughts spin a web of insanity around my head
suspended just out of reach
I want to scream and cry and tell you how it feels
but it doesnt
Years of subjugation
initiation
proliferation
I can’t write
speak
think
communicate
to myself
to others
I am disorder
I am confusion
I am the fog and the worm at the edge of your eye.
You may see me, for a moment
Watch me carefully
do not disturb.
BECAUSE I AM NEUROTIC
MY THOUGHTS, LIKE LEMMINGS
TUMBLE FROM MY MIND
CAUGHT IN ENDLESS SUICIDE
because I
am scared
of you
of me
not being enough
not being enough
I fear and crave tranquility
the chaos feels so familiar
and yet
it fleets from me
because I told it to
because I told you, too.
I stray and I stay
Caught between inaction and movement
Indecisive
ambidextrous
obsessive
inconclusive
unfinished.
I am in limbo.
I am in purgatory.