OCD (5)

The air feels grey and thick

I wade, weighed down

By warped versions of reality 

That push me to my knees

And I sink.

I can't think my way out.

C. LJ Ireton 2019.

My cats

My cats

Circle me

As planets orbit

Round the Sun

So my cats

Remind me

Who I am

When I've forgotten.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Place

I could stand here for hours

With the wind brushing my face

Holding me upright, lifting my heart

Over purple trees, just like my gaze

Part of the outside I can stand

Where my mind can see a space

It's been singing for in darkness

Searching for a peaceful place.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Alive

And the sun shone

Bringing the very earth to life

The creatures crawled out from the ground and birds took to the skies

The stream spoke to the pebbles

Saying it is alive

Nature says we live

Man says we survive.

C. LJ Ireton 2019