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Never ending, thinking really

Introspective, retrospective

By Paul StewartPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Never ending, thinking really
Photo by Akshar Dave🌻 on Unsplash

I've been looking through

B-r-e-a-k/down

been thinking a lot recently

d-o-w-n/town

empty photo albums and memories

t-o-w-n/house

()cynically()cyclical()lacilcyc()yllacinyc()

h-o-u-s-e/hold

absentee persona non gratin

h-o-l-d/all

never stop thinking really

all-spark/no trousers

I was never there, always here

trousers p r e s s e d

been thinking about reality (ytilaer s'tahw)

p r e s s e d against

inside me, internally, (enclosed)

against me

never ending, thinking really

me you

my screen protector, (shielded)

as one

been internally debating

)(entwined)( forever

me from you and life, a travesty

never forget

neglect and regret, missteps so so so many

never ever agreeing really

forget past

I forget

how many times I've done the same

rinse, recycle, repeat, return

past mistakes

how many ways I've stained my name

mistakes missteps

copy, paste, recycle, recover

missteps misshapes

how many times I've covered my shame

don't fit

refresh, rinse, recycle, repeat

fit in

how many times I've done the same

in crowd

return to sender, natural incentor

crowded h-o-u-s-e, h-o-u-s-e(bound)

(bound) -gagged-, -gagged- (bagged)

(bagged) dumped, dumped there

there anywhere...down

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Okay...maybe last for today. Another one that is made up of parts of other pieces that were hanging around down the back of the digital sofa that is my WIP folder. I think they meld well together, because I am often preoccupied with these kinds of thoughts, haha.

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About the Creator

Paul Stewart

Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

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  • Grz Colm2 years ago

    Unique Paul! 😁 Digital sofa - lolz.

  • Caroline Jane2 years ago

    There is something really constricting about the concentration needed to read this. I feel all wound up. Tense tbh. I am guessing you wanted that sense to come through. If so, it definitely worked!

  • John Cox2 years ago

    What’s reality? Empty photo albums and memories. This feels fractured, a bracing realignment of expectation and memory and feeling. Very thought provoking!

  • Playing with words in such a free-flowing yet disjointed manner can be fun for all the disorientation it induces.

  • Jess Boyes2 years ago

    Very relatable. Love the writing style - awesome!

  • What's reality? I caught that; and I like your word porn!

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