2021 - 10/30 - Inspiration

[skonen_blades]

This is the madness of forgetting yourself
The squeal as your mind unmoors
Your calm, dead eyes become passive monitors
There’s a thump of a distant circuit breaker
Deep inside you
And all of your suburbs go dark one by one
Diverting power to the big idea
The timing’s never good
You’d rather be by yourself
But as it is, you can mannequin
Through most conversations
Before creating a non-suspicious exit
A quiet black-cat fade
This disassociation makes you become balloon
A zombie on standby
A collection of reflexes and autonomic systems
Going about their business
But the steering wheel is handless
Time to walk untethered
Letting the traffic lights tell you where to go
Astral travel without leaving your body
This fugue trance of inspiration
A movie extra in someone else’s dream
Interacting with the world at all
Seems like impossible multitasking
You return like a rising tide
Hopefully with treasure
Refocusing slowly
Becoming you again
Someone forms behind the mask
Returns from the abyss
You check the pockets of your soul
To see if anything’s missing
Get a read on where you’ve ended up
Make sure you’re still you
And start the countdown until next time
These drifts into non-being
The magic of the flow
These creative seizures
Can be just as comforting as they are alarming
Sometimes its a triggered response
But sometimes it’s just that whale of imagination
Breaching the ocean inside of you
Belly-flopping into the light
Causing ripples
You patiently wait out
While playing poker with the world
And not existing until they stop



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