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Reality is Devastating

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Reality is devastating

No time for sweet feeling

Just urgency

Fast walking towards

The uncertainty of everything

No time for hope

No time for faith

A heaviness in your collarbones saying

This is it.

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Reality is the heaviness

Hope is the sky

You can’t reach it I know it

And you try.

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Reality latches onto even the

Most hopeful

Makes grey your once blue skies

Dims the light of your faith

Reality

But who made this one

So devastating?

Whereas mine has a glimmer of hope

Crackling with desire

My desire has its own gravitational pull

My desire makes new galaxies

Yet still faced with the weight

Of reality, my desire

Succumbs to the heaviness and I’m left

On my couch

Tingling in my collarbones

Weighing me down

I’m saying to my therapist

“Reality is devastating”

She’s like

“Tell me more”

but everything’s become too grey

And I’m almost hopeless

I say

“There’s no hope in reality”

She says

“Say more”

And I cry because

I can’t

Reality has captive my

Collarbones and my

Memories of you

It’s weighing me

Down.

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