Broken Mirrors and Bad Reflections
As a child I didn’t fear the monsters under my bed
I feared the monsters inside my head.
I still fear my own mind.
It bothers me all of the time.
Fire alarm running out of batteries
Slowly draining me.
I fear my thoughts.
I don’t trust my head.
Fills my body with dread.
The mirror I look into breaks.
My mind aches.
I can’t comprehend who I am,
Just as mirrors can’t comprehend.
A mirror can’t bend and break
Like a person can.
It shatters from pressure
Like a human mind.
I still fear my own mind.
It makes itself known from time to time.
I can’t run and hide from this monster.
I see reflections of a person from my past.
I used to know them, but I lost touch.
The person is me, I’m lost.
I am wandering aimlessly.
I feel empty.
I feared robots as a child too,
Guess I didn’t see I would become one too.
What is this mess?
Why am I like this?
No control.
What is wrong?
I can’t do this again.
My mind told me I couldn’t
It was feigned.
Lost in the maze of my mind.
Have to find my way.
To keep this beast at bay.
Can’t take this.
I’m breaking,
The reflection I saw in the mirror was me.
Empty, broken, and lonely.
If only.
I can’t take this.
I crawl out of the cracks of the broken mirror.
Leaving the empty shell of a person.
Picking up the broken glass,
To piece together what once was.
To lift the mass of my monster
Off my shoulders.
I broke and shattered because of those boulders.
I had forgotten what air felt like.
I forgot what it was like to bear my mind.
It had never been kind.
A new kind of sobriety.
One free of anxiety.