Inside This Mind
A Poem
You don’t know what it’s like to live inside this mind with its capacity larger than all of the water in the world containing memories of everything that was ever said or done swimming toward the present even when drowned in the past
Inside this mind is organized but also full of hoarded minutia letters to self buried under poetic verse as a reminder that nothing is lost even when it was discarded with that very intent
Inside this mind is bustling with creativity and wordsmithing but dampened by the cold rain of terminal despair and the inability to escape itself in the slightest of downpours
Inside this mind is a catalog of images and videos and memories of every second of this life and while some may find that beautiful, this mind holds and replays all of the darkness, on a loop, for eternity within eternity
I used to fight this mind and hide its photographs within my head, under my pillow, until I realized that there was no place to hide from myself and all that resides in this mind
© Jonathan Greene 2020
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