Don't Think

Don’t Think

The only way

I can possibly keep going

Is to detach

Become numb

Anaesthetised to the turmoil

Inside my head.

It’s all too much now

Unless I shut out the world

Turn my back

- and my heart -

From all that's in it

To flick into autopilot mode;

Don't think

Don't feel

Pop some pills

Just be.

Robotic and automatic

Mechanical and emotionless

Like a pre-programmed machine.

This moment right now

Is all that exists;

Block out the past

And the future.

Hope is gone now

Extinguished like a flame;

Right now

Is all I have.