Captive

Communication can be difficult, even more so when there is physical and emotional distance between people. It can often feel like we are sending out the same messages over and over again in a desperate attempt to be understood. At the same time our own journey and our own growth often depend on others as we struggle to become better versions of ourselves. We can find ourselves held hostage, to ideas, to traditions, to each other and perhaps worst of all, to ourselves.

Decompression

Last confession

Lost and listless and still listing

Drowning now, my ship still sinking

Event horizon stretching

But I never have to meet the sun

Heart held out for harvesting

Pulled but never grown

Novel sense of nobility

Nominal lip service to humility

Set aside any real sense

Of responsibility

Discipline is a difficult concept

All of these self-evident precepts

Faded scriptures recited in this

Spiritually bankrupt remembrance

Repetition

Last edition

No addicted additives needed

Loneliness intact without addendum

Amendments found redundant

Of lighthouses I've lit up

Torches carried

And time wasted on thoughts of love

Viral signal incoming

But I never show any symptoms

Arms held out for vaccination

Jabbed but never held again

Years spent misunderstanding

The movement of these stars across my skull

Inside of eyelids shining

Neural roots like constellations glow

Determination

Self-realization

Soul subducted then subtracted

Beneath layers of this soil

Seasick with eyes sore

Seeking dry land flying your colors

Treading water with lungs full

Paddling and putting words in these bottles

Friction births these earthquakes

Perhaps a tsunami might carry me

Or with merciful fury

Simply wipe me out at last

Path of least resistance

Cowardice but persistence

Still somehow narcissistic

A fool if ever one has been

Far from regret-less

Out of ink and breathless

Unsure of this message

Perhaps it's best you forget this

Acceptance

Effortless, relentless

Speak friend and entrance

Forever yours,

Captive

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