Ming Xi- Words on Bathroom Walls
https://i.ibb.co/VYKkzdL/5-600x921.jpg You’ve never experienced pain as much as I have,
Not physical or emotional but existential.
Memories, words, thoughts all jumbled in my head fading slowly…
But the one thing that remains are the voices.
Not one, two, three or four but much more than that,
Saying “Ming look over there, Ming watch out!”
People looking at me strangely as if I was out of my mind.
But you’re not stuck in this cage,
This cage called my consciousness.
Nowhere for me to escape,
No way for me to shut it off.
As a child, little Ming, reading messages and giggling in the washroom stall,
Clearly with 100% confidence that it was real.
Another joy this thing has taken away from me,
Please don’t!
I look at it over and over again trying, trying, trying!
These words on bathroom walls are dead to me,
Sadly with it so is my sanity.