Brain warmer.

I need to be with myself because I am slow.
I don't know when the synapses say go.
Give me a moment to make sure they're talking to me
and it's not a case of mistaken identity.
I need to be alone. I need no excuse.
The brain says I'm under-archiving, I say it's overanalyzing.
It'd be funny if it's not indefinitely depressing.
I'm a lazy brain warmer telling the brain to chill.

Game.

There're certain games I'm afraid to play.
I always win & I think I know why.
It's a cosmic burden, the unexpected kind.
It's the game I call U ❤ I.

Biding for.

Freedom is not checking others faces
before uttering the next words.
Freedom is not holding myself in
before letting my presence known.
Freedom is poking where it hurts
and knowing that remedy is at hand.
Freedom is beyond happiness
where messy life is accompanied
by an internal soundtrack that I enjoy.

Unfolding.

Neatly packaged & put away for keeps,
life on a shelf with expiration date.
Yellowing, hollowing, echoes from far away.
Moldy, haunted, only roaches for company.

Bumped outta the place,
it's no mistake.
Give these creaky pages a turn,
origami into alien shapes.

It's the unfolding
of a love judged outta date.
It's an unfolding
of a life and its final embrace.