High Collateral

High Collateral 

 

 

the clock ticks oh so slowly

he stares at me with his pen nudging margins

in a tiny notebook, 

the size of his empathy

 

i speak monotonous minutes

of gibberish,

since my brain is so disconnected

and for so long the socket is soaked

with the shock of the past

 

i'm trying again to reach now

but the hands of the face of time

 

push me away from myself

and the margins widen

the writing indecipherable 

when the hour is up,

he says---"bring your heart back in same

time next week"

 

while his eyes add

 

"and we will drain some more of your emotions

as well as your bank account,"

 

and i know there will be no chance

of getting better from you.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

5/12/16

Reviews

[aLittlePain]

I love this! The irony, the wit... Brilliant!

We deplete our selves for the sake of a listening ear with an empty soul, only to end up broke 😉.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Rach.

j.

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Dogs are the best therapists and all it costs you is a little love :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that is so true...i have a cat---she is like the therapist in the poem..only she can't write. the pen keeps slipping out of her paw..

j.

[Neville]

Hey jacob, this has got to be consigned to my growing list of favourwrites. It is without doubt a delicious and perfectly blended composition brimming with satire and overflowing too with self disclosure and insight...................N

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, N.

j.

[andrew mitchell]

I had a laugh at the irony of this write. They are suppose to make you feel better but how can you, being left with a hole in your wallet afterwards and all answers are coming from you. Do they really know?? or are they just good at pretending to listen lol. They never really commit to anything except their price tag is the impression I get and you get to lie down on a sofa!!.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes the sofa is comfortable...but not for that price!
your response gave me a smile, such truth...although i had a couple great therapists...especially the last one....she challenged me...

j.

[Lyn Anderson]

How many times have I wondered just why is that counsellor looking at me that way, likely writing down her grocery list as she placates me with some psychobabble and asks me to search for my own answers. At least, that's where this takes me.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

no kidding, my best therapists did that...i would ask, "what do you think?" and they would say "what do you think?"

[David Scott]

This feels like a session with a bad psychologist. It is almost funny if it were not so accurate. Where is our empathy? It seems to be as bankrupt as our ethics and our evonomies... It might all be connected? Hmmm
A stimulating write.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind and insightful review, David.

j.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Ah yes, a man must first overcome himself before he can overcome anything or anyone else. BEST THERAPY....BE PROUD OF THE SCARS!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, i like that....thank you, Queenie..

j.

[V]

So a useless counseling? A non-working therapy to overcome a deep heartache but the one who should offer you a professional form of help just fails to do so. Sad when not only your heart and soul but also your bank account is empty. Like an emotional and literal bankrupt. I like your endlessly seeming creativity, the way you express feelings and facts and put them together.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you so much for your kind words,

j.

[V]

You're welcome.

[Einstein Noodle]

damn! it makes a man a puddle ... this is why we have primitive man drum beating clubs ;) ... tho the woman is the "feeling" person ... its like Percy Sledge when a man loves a woman .. :(( it puts us in hospitals ... :((
E.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

so right, so right..E. and the hospitals are getting overcrowded...too many in a room...
read moreso right, so right..E. and the hospitals are getting overcrowded...too many in a room...

thank you,

j.

[Einstein Noodle]

we can be a sorry lot eh!? ;} love and peace brother!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

"Love and time make fools of us all" Those poor digital, bloodshot red eyes clicking the minutes away out of the hours...the days...the weeks...some say time flies...but we all belong to the flies in time. Our only revenge is in filling as much of we can of life with love, joy and happiness pretending to be oblivious to oblivion.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like this, Fabian...yes, fill as much of it as we can, with smiles...
j.