This is something that I wrote several years ago, but wanted to share here. This is relevant throughout life, as doubt always tries to sneak back in sometimes.
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Doubt.
That ever niggling,
lingering voice.
Gnawing at you,
Like rats eating flesh.
Making you question
yourself at every turn.
Your sanity,
Your decisions,
Both present and past.
Am I crazy?
Is that thought
caused by
My mental health?
My trauma?
My instincts?
I ask myself that daily.
There is never an answer.
Every day I remind myself,
No, I am not crazy.
But sometimes...
When all is said and done,
That doubt returns,
A wicked ember,
Eager to consume once more.
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Emily Kitty
I'm a writer of fantasy, with a penchant for dark fantasy, and a love of exploring morally grey themes.
I also enjoy writing free-form expressionist poetry as a way to express any mental health struggles I may be experiencing at the time.
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Please note- This is something that I wrote several years ago. I have since edited and played with it in minor ways, however the core of this writing was written when I was going through a lot of remembering, processing, and healing from my traumas.
By Emily Kittyabout a year ago in Poets
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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