logicality

By Amanda Schwarz

logically — I am sane.

irrelevant and unimportant

insignificant

rationally — I am usual.

typical even, in most occupations

calm and refined

understanding of purpose,

of individuality,

of impact

but emotionally, dear,

emotionally — I am infinite.

I am crushed by everything I have done

and haven’t

everything I have made to exist and failed to create

I am nothing but my memory of the past and fear of the future

I am eternally afraid and eternally in love

forever alive forever dying forever asleep as I am awake

I am too much too much too much yet entirely too little

I am every word I have spoken when saying nothing at all

I am exhales and exhaust, intake and energy

I am every bit of skin I have touched and sun I have felt

I am the incomprehensible accumulation of everything I have ever known

I am saturation as I am disenchantment

why can’t I understand?

suppress

subjugate 

compartmentalize

decide decide decide 

control let go live fuller alleviate destroy become

unconfined.

no. stop, that’s not right?

logically — I am defined.

in body in blood in heart

logically — I am sane. 

in mind in sound in humanity

but perhaps I am not logical.

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