Notes from a Chronic Existentialist
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Break
Your frustrations are left
Like too many
Broken promises
Strewn about the floor
But I’ll just keep using
The same tired dreams
That are too worried
To try anymore
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Flower
I try to sing to you
So sweetly
But you've just been
Blooming
In all the wrong
Places
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Galaxies
You don't have to hate
The orbit of the pond
Just because you want to swim
In the cosmic river
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Scream
We were just ghosts
Drifting
Trying to tell each other
What could be
Real
And what could be
Nothing
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Crisis
You've been looking
Far too long
To let the dread
Of letting go
Defeat you
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Speak
You're always
At a loss for
Words
But then again
You've been
Silenced
By the act of
Merely living
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Compartmentalizing
How are you supposed to find
The way it all fits into you
When you don't even know
How you fit into yourself
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Flying
You were the only one
The bee without the stripes
So we shared the same coat
Because you were only
Passing through
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Lucid
I'm sure I've said it before
But my reality is always so sadly
Lost in dreams
The potential stories that lie there
Squandered in the confusion
Of sleep
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Trapped
It isn't what’s out there
It's what’s in here
In the deepest recesses
It's all the same
In the end
It's what the mind makes of it
That matters
After all
Sara Grainger
Sara is a graduate of both Nipissing and Ryerson Universities. Since completing two post-secondary programs apparently wasn’t enough for her, she is also currently in the second year of the Professional Writing Program at Algonquin. When not making every attempt to avoid the 9-5 lifestyle, she can be found testing the waters of musicianship, binge watching any genre of television you can think of (as long as it’s worthwhile) and pretending to be good at video games. She is also passionate about animal welfare and loves spending time with her Chihuahua mix Tula and cat Oki.
