Too Many Thoughts

Too many thoughts.

Do they circle through your head like mine?

Do you shut your eyes to escape the world,

Only to see it painted on the insides of your eyelids,

Does the cold air cut you like knives,

Does the world make your heart sting?

Who the hell are these people with painted smiles,

Self-assured clowns wrapped in pearly white teeth,

Do they see feelings like colors in their chests,

Do they know how quickly they come and go and release,

Do they yearn to vanquish them, are they wistful to feel them

Though, just one more time?

Are their bones like spatulas and stirring sticks,

Marinating with the meat in cortisol and adrenaline,

And whatever caffeine I’m pouring into myself,

Does the news make you quiver and do you your eyes pop out

Of their sockets when someone in it dies?

Do you feel the world destroying itself, do you ever wonder if trees have feelings,

Do you stare at the sunset and grieve the day,

Do you dance in the absence of light,

Do you have too many thoughts too?

Author's Note

Too many rhetorical questions? Yes? No? Let me know what you think :)

Reviews

[NeilSHowe]

There is a quiet innocence and beauty to your writing. Fragile even. I can't even imagine what it takes to achieve that. Youth maybe. Don't lose it. The world could use more. :)

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Lots of thoughts, thinking is the relaxation of the emotions, when thoughts process, emotions stop, and there my brain does all the talking. But what are we thinking of? Lets jsut do it all, stop the barrier of thought and brainstorm and just jump into the freezing water. Your body will regulate itself, it is made to adapt, so why think at all?