Inside

Inside

It like a whirling funnel of wind

being sucked down the drain

racing through pipes of flesh

winding deeper and deeper into the earth

finally spiraling out into the universe saturated with thoughts and ideas and

permeated with awareness and fear.

You forget you're breathing,

forget your heart beats

forget you can feel pain

or love.

You dwell.

And on the outside you look ‘normal’

Mostly.

But inside your head, your body,

there's whole universes of thought,

emotion, confliction,

desire, obsession

Exploding.

And you feel it, and you know it

and that silver strand of reason

shimmers in the whirlwind

that keeps it always out of reach.

Always vulnerable, every minute

to every whim,

eating every idea,

wanting to try them all

heedless of the real world around them,

that can be broken.

That's what they don't see.

That, and so much more.