Looking Around

A poem about rethinking everything You thought You knew.

Looking Around

As You look around Your world

What do You really now?

What can You ever know?

It can all collapse in an instant

What do You do

When You see it all collapsing?

Falling apart all around You

Crumbling into dust

All You thought You knew

All You thought was immutable, unchanging

All You knew could never change

In an instant it all falls away

What do You do when your security vanishes?

Shake, cry, laugh? 

Looking around Your world

You thought it was over and done with

But really its just begin

And as the symphony of pain beings to replay

Inside Your head and in the actions

History Repeating inside your mind

The mind you can never trust

The mind which contorts everything

To extract the pain from you

To make You relive it over and over

Inside Your mind

Until it keeps attacking 

And You crumble under its assault

What do You do when the tears hit the floor?

And when following them, the grand collision 

As You fall to your knees from the pain

As You look around Your world

What do You really now?

What can You ever know?

Things that were said

Never unsaid, only forgotten

But if they cannot be forgotten

What do they still mean?

What do those words still mean?

The impossible becomes possible

Then inevitable, then reality

What do You know about what was said?

What it meant? What it still means?

As Your mind continues its assault

As You fall to the earth from the pain

What do You have left?

What will happen to You?

As You look around Your world

What do You really now?

What can You ever know?

It can all collapse in an instant

What do You do

When You see it all collapsing?

Falling apart all around You

Crumbling into dust

All You thought You knew

All You thought was immutable, unchanging

All You knew could never change

In an instant it all falls away

What do You do when your security vanishes?

Shake, cry, laugh? 

Looking around Your world

Reviews

[LittleMissMayhem]

One spelling mistake fourth paragraph 'things' but other than that it was great.