Broken brain

Broken brain

That I carry around with me

Was meant to be in charge

But it tortured me

Until I stopped moving

In despondency.

Now I wait

For supplies 

But there's no bandage for the mind

So I sit

Holding the

Fragile pieces.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Someone

I try to be myself for a moment

Then I remember my madness and cry

Because I feel like time has been stolen

Leaving someone I don't recognise.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Thoughts

Oh that my thoughts

Could run like water

Always flowing to the sea

Instead they go no further,

Forge a dam

And hold in me

A stream is like a wish

To whispers stuck in dirt

Weaving them in movement

Making rivers of new thought. 

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Dark Cloud

Dark cloud

I know you now

You've been following me for a while

Some days you thunder

Confusing me

But when the lightning stops 

I see you. 

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Ghost Ship

My mind, my time

Was stolen from me

The clock stopped with my sanity

The pain is now

An absent thing

A ghost ship that is hovering

While I look on

Now from the pier

Not knowing how it brought me here.

C. LJ Ireton 2019.

Darkness

Thoughts thrashing through tunnels

Endless atoms amongst darkness

Moving forward without my feet

Without my sight - 

I forgot I was made of light too.

C. LJ Ireton 2019