There's feeling in my chest that I sometimes feel. In the dead of night, when all is quiet and it seems that I'm the only thing that's real in this cold dark world. It stings in a way that I can't describe. Like its excitement, but overshadowed by the pain I hold inside. This pain. This disruptive and belligerent pain that won't leave no matter how many blows I deliver. With the arrows from my quiver that represent thoughts and affirmations I've ever been given or helped to think of myself. It's a pain with a mind, it reminds me why it's there bringing memories and scenes front my past, seen or unseen, from which I want to escape and be free. But I cant. They're tethered to me. Connected at this painful point. A point of rage for me. It builds into that, pushing hate through my veins and into the tips of my fingers. My hands remember the feel of a knife and remember that they can be bringers and deliverers of a type of pain much like the one their owner suffers under. They remember. And they anxiously wait command. I blink and shake a bit, staring down at my hand. A chill rolls down my spine, my body quivers as it does. A tingling feeling travels from my forehead to my toes.
My mind takes hold, but not the part of my mind that I’d like to. Its the instinct, the fight or flight brain that I give into. Thoughts of running through the streets, possibly hurting others as I go. I must find a place to hide, a place where this wont show. I lock myself in my john and sit down and wait for a spell. I have my meds in my pocket, given to me for this kind of hell. I take one and breathe deep holding tears inside. This is the third time today that I’ve been down this ride. I breathe out, my hands still shaking from the anger. I’m a little calmer now, but I still feel like there’s a danger. I’m afraid to leave this room, there are no hiding places or ways to get behind me. Its hard to find me. And if I’m found its easier to defend me. There are voices now that tell me there are things behind the door. I plug my ears and kneel a bit and sit on the floor. I breathe in and close my eyes and hold it for a moment. I repeat in my mind that those thoughts are mine and they’re unfounded, just proponent of the fears that I hold inside. In my mind and my core. In this, you can be sure, they’re be there evermore.
I sit back against the porcelain throne and reach around it to find a tool I use in these situations, my trusty, favorite pipe.
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