i knew it

traumas from the past intruding on the present.

reset glitch

analyst's chair
tears threaten
recounting
dreams --
"the accident
has ways
of bringing
past trauma
to the fore" --
so what is
the end game
for the brain?
why can't it
reset to
happy
instead of
you?

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get out of me!

you seem
determined
to intrude
in the new me
how can I
make him see
you do not
mean
what you
seem
to mean
to me.

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i knew it.
the first time
i saw you
limp away
in the dark.

a fix is
the one thing
that really
pulls you
out of park .

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your old enemy
your old friend
congratulations,
it's just you
and the bucket
again.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Matching Socks]

Tough one. Very tough. Sorry I missed this one.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. Yes, that definitely was not a good day.

[Bacchus]

So clever in it's structure- will have to revisit it again.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. This is a style I have developed here at the Cafe' -- I have always written poems this way, and then deconstructed them in the editing process. Here, I have learned to keep these snippets together, as they were first written. Thank you for stopping by.

[V]

The ever coming to the surface things/happenings we've gone through. Really hard to forget. Writing them down might help a little. I like the last stanza, it's directness, your words so clearly reflecting those feelings.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you for that. This really is just a little bit of poetic vomit.:)

[V]

But a good one.

[Lyn Anderson]

Well thanks, sometimes it is good to purge.

[V]

I can relate. I also like to do that at times.

[A hare off]

All painful and sad, if only they could be put in the "forgettable" box and set out on the curb for trash day. Not the poems, the mind daggers.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you for your review and your support.