Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks August 2015 (Collaboration) | Page 29

Juxtaposition.
RG Allen
Side by side,
Inside yourself,
Internal turmoil,
For mental health.
When you fall,
Fall,
Fall,
Fall,
You plead,
Agh, this mental disease,
Crying whilst smiling,
Drowning,
A storm of thoughts,
A river of revolution,
Hiding from mirror self reflection,
This face,
A disguise,
Masking internal tumultuous orchestrations,
To endure for even simple everyday conversations,
Iterations,
Complications,
Mental deviations,
Awkward explanations.
The sanitation of sensations,
Sardonic,
Derisively mocking mental self workings,
An internal narrative,
Of mental tourettes,
A retrospective response to words you should have said.

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