This poem is one I started coming up with last night. I was inspired by something I read... it mentioned a mind being full of elsewhere, and I fell down the mental rabbit hole and went from there.
I just finished it at 2:26 in the afternoon, and this marks my first entry in Poetry Month.
I hope my poetry gives you the language to feel what we've all felt, in one way or another.
And thank you for reading.
Replay
04.01.2021
I've got a head full of somewhere else
It makes it hard to see
When your memory plays in all your cells
The present is a mystery
The past holds me prisoner
Someplace I can never really be
For time is my inhibitor
No matter how I plea
The past captures my attention
Shackling it to the floor
And I'm struggling in another dimension
Never where I was before
Where has my mind gone?
It's stuck in another day
Another moment
Another year
That just won't go away
I'm struggling against these chains
I want to be set free
But the prisoner remains
It's all that's left of me
My body is one with the 'Now'
Time, she never stops moving
But I am trapped in yesterday
Situation never improving
Why must I be this way?
Because this feeling demands attention
This moment of my life
I never got past the dissension
Gutted with a proverbial knife
I never pulled it out you see
It fused into my bone
It has become a part of me
With this pain, I shan't be alone
And every time it twists a little
I flash back to the day
Where my mind got stuck
Where I lost my luck
And my brain pressed replay