Capsule Poem by Dark Days

Capsule



As you wander
ever farther
from your wilting sanity,
leave the old dreads
underneath the bed
and don't you dare forget about me.

As you gather all your things
in the morning-time,
where do you suppose
you will go from here, where life
was the Hollow Tree, eaten out inside?

[RE: 'The State I Am In.']

I'm slipping casually, but I'm a little bit scared
of what might happen to me should I let go entirely.
With a grin spread wide displaying thirty tiny lies
and a capsule slowly dissolving somewhere inside,
I will make the world seem sickeningly bright.

All my memories are fading out;
I don't know what that's all about.
My body wants to twist and shout
in confusion,
and all my thoughts are flying now,
miles above the highest clouds.
I don't know how
to bring them back down.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this on the piano sometime in August. I was feeling very stressed at the time, anxious at all hours, cycling between self-isolation and fruitless social endeavours, sleeping and eating very little. I couldn't fully make sense of what was happening to me, so I began self-medicating and eventually beginning to focus all of my time and energy into writing a semi-autobiographical concept album, called 'the Apparition.' This song will be included on it.
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