Wednesday, February 06, 2013

There’s a mouse tapping in my chest where my heart should be.





I love it when beautiful humans write to me and send me their reflections, dreams, stories.
Sometimes they give me permission to use on my blog.
Here is a friend from Norway - a one year old friend.
She sent me this  - powerful. So powerful.

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Breathe

02.30 am
..I don’t know..
...What’s happening…

Roaring in my ears like a train. 
Planting bluebells on my body
I can’t smell them. 
There’s a mouse tapping in my chest
where my heart should be. 

Sentence on repeat in my head
“I don’t know what’s happening”.
If I could only
breathe. 

I am sucked in by the cracks in the wall.
And the white noise behind my eyelids.
The persistent flicker of memories. 

…What’s happening…

Roaring in my ears like a train, 
I still can’t smell the bluebells. 
I shall drift away for a while 
and wake up with a voice in my head
It isn’t my own. 
I feel the mouse disappearing. 
Off to pick blue flowers, I imagine.

My heart is back.
I shall remember how
to breathe. 


by Mone Celin