THE WAITING ROOM

If I read a book I’ll know what to say

I’ll learn how to feel

I’m scared that I’ll stop missing you

One day you won’t be on my mind

I smile more than I mean to

alone in a room

this solitude overwhelms me

I turn to thorns

for comfort

My mind wanders to places it shouldn’t

i question questions

I tried to believe beliefs

I try to run away but it’s faster to bike away,

it’s faster to drive away

it’s safer to fly away

it’s easier to fall asleep

On my own

I’m figuring life out

My heart pounds a thousand beats when it struggles

because happiness is being in the moment,

appreciating what’s in front of us

accepting that at that time that was the best option

learning to let go

knowing that in the future we can change

live without regrets

with only hope for the future

I don’t regret feeling regret, at the time I HAD to

Since you left I’ve dreamt a thousand dreams,

they seem like nightmares but only because you’re not in them

A thousand choices, and i only want the next one

but i’m not going after it, am i?

There is a plan

in my palm

invisible

waiting to be plotted

i’m waiting

my life feels like a waiting room

I’m drinking tonics

My heart is ready to explode

a thousand nurses pass me by

a wheelchair awaits me

i long for jello

i wait for a visit

and my friend is too scared to come

I dream of roses or of flowers

I find one bringing me chocolates

My phone has died

and the morphine has taken a hold of me

my arm is bleeding

the nurse is telling me “soon”

I want to leave but don’t know where

I’m in the waiting room

waiting to be helped

they want my money

but i have none to give them

so they keep me waiting in the waiting room

I’m taking tests

I keep failing

they keep coming

every shift i see a different nurse

and they keep me waiting

in the waiting room

I’m sweating

and the room is spinning

But everyone is screaming in the waiting room

we are all here for help

and they look worse so they can go ahead of me

so i’m waiting

i’m getting cold and i didn’t bring a blanket

I’m trying to leave this waiting room


this is about missing Kayla, thorns are drugs and women that are no good for me, chocolates are from RE, i feel stuck like being in a waiting room – the description of the waiting room is from when the dog bit me and some of it describes the appendix. It means i need help, i feel as helpless and stuck as i did that day. i was cold, it took forever, i was stuck in the waiting room…it’s weird because technically its called the ER room not the waiting room….

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