Unrest
-You tell yourself, you’ve come so far and overcome much but then you close your eyes and when you open them you find yourself a retrograde. In a shell you sometimes overcome, but only in brief instances. Each time it’s like an awakening. A new breath. When your lungs collapse upon themselves, you’re once again crushed within the small confines of that shell. You ask yourself, why each breath is so short, why each awakening is only momentary. In the haze of smoke, you start thinking about the blue pill, the one you took in college. The one that didn’t […]