A swim in thoughts



A million thoughts inside my brain
Insecurity, anger,discontent
Fear,anxiety,disappointment.
If I would I would pry it open
and watch the contents fall out and stain my shoes.
I would let them flood the whole world.
My mind is saturated
and I'm careful not to ruminate more,
because if I do it will surely detonate.
I feel the knots,the tangles you cannot untwist.
I feel the tonnes on my shoulders
that no one would find upon themselves to lift from me.
I feel like an ant,
Diminutive and vulnerable to anyone's stumble.
I crumble all these up
And throw them all into a glass bottle that I doubt will hold for long,
I toss it into the deep dark ocean.

About this poem

This poem recognises mental breakdown and how people can keep it all to themselves because they feel alone

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Submitted by Dikailisa44 on August 31, 2022

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Scheme ABBCDBBEBBFGBHIJC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 657
Words 136
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17

Lisa Dikai

I grew up in an urban area with my mother and two brothers. I love writing poetry because it lets me acknowledge how I feel,calms me down and makes me feel happy more…

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