Monday, April 14, 2014

In conversation with myself

It's 'come home to an empty room" o' clock. You switch on the lights, and find yourself in a parody. The 4x4 you call your room is as accepting as the child who's been denied a pacifier.
Sometimes the most daunting task is to face yourself, uninhibited.
It's scary. Falling short of your own expectations; looking back to find failures and shortcomings tutting at you. Tomorrow looks as unsure as the present. You are reminded of  a bug, unloved, an unwanted, lying on its back. It can't expect its friends to come to help and flip it over, can it?
Then why are you so expecting, you think to yourself
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You try and talk yourself out of your self- inflicted pain. Cliches, the silver linings and the glintless dawn, they can't exorcise your demons
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You try the pills instead. There is a certain comfort in slumber. 
You have your dreams that none can take away from you.
 At that precise moment, when you are trying to wash them down with a mouthful of beer, you see a book. 
The cover is battered; you reach out to it... 


To be continued...