escape
there’s this unsettling feeling in the pit
of your stomach when you’re stuck in the hole
that lays between reality and the book
that plays in your mind.
this feeling makes you want to break free
from the book inside your head.
it makes you want to live rather than
to just merely exist,
because a part of you wants to
live in reality, so you can
understand what everyone else sees,
what they all feel.
but you can’t because you’re
stuck.
you’re stuck in the part of your mind
that makes you feel
safe, content, okay and free.
you’re too scared to live anywhere else
but inside the book that plays
in your mind,
so it simply leaves you existing
everywhere else.
(2014)
