...Escaping the Fugue

By SolApathy

...You must listen as you read...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWChhdIgT6Q


I sit here -- gun in hand
In denial of where I am
How did this steel tempt me to no longer feel?
I think there is no way this can be real
All alone as I take my final breath tonight
In some way I feel relief from my strife
Telling me it’s time as I pray for no afterlife
Look to my arms and see scars of this life
X-acto blade memories under dim bathroom lights
An inch for every year of hell --The stories these walls could tell
A victim of my own blistered mind
 I feel the trigger as the final minutes unwind
I know the pills ”helped” me for so long
But what is life as a zombie –I couldn’t even sing a song
 life in a fugue state is something you can’t equate
Unable to express smiles or hate
The drugs--My soul they castrate 

In a prison you don’t know you are in until you escape
Chaos of the world I cannot endure
I searched so long for the cure

The meds eviscerated my very soul
Knowing now I must go
Metal so unfeeling and cold—How can it relate

I pull the trigger and seal my…Fate

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© 2020 SolApathy
Published on Tuesday, April 10, 2018.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

...As I try to comprehend I finally realize the pills are why I'm committing this sin.
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  • I IS ME On Friday, May 11, 2018, I IS ME (380)By person wrote:

    We stumbled upon this and found a treasure. We really enjoyed the piece. Yes we like.


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