Choke

I came up for air for a few moments

Enough time to think it was safe to breathe 

Where seconds felt like days

So I took a huge inhale 

Only to have life shove my head back under

And the second half of my inhale

Was me choking on salt water 

Again. 

Believe

I believe in the power to heal ourselves

In the power of belief

That our very atoms house that power

It vibrates with intensity

And we just give it away.

We swallow it down with pills and booze

And we vaporize it with smoke 

We watch it dissipate in the sun 

And we don’t even care that it’s gone

Because we’ve lost the belief

That it ever existed in the first place

(right)

Drifting through these corridors

(they’re too large to be hallways)

And wishing I could turn invisible

(and invincible)

So that I wouldn’t have to speak

Wouldn’t have to come up

With more bullshit words

Words that don’t match the images

My mind creates

(or conjures)

Sometimes it feels like these walls

Are the illusion

(yet symbolic)

And I wonder why I waste so much time

Wandering through non-reality 

And how successful this world has become

At making us think the reality in our minds

Is wrong

(it’s right)