"I'm blank, I'm still, but I'm numb from the pain and I'm fine with the weather"

yeah and it’s
hard not to go to that
place in my head
that’ll stop me from ever leaving this room
yeah and it’s all so confusing
because i’m all worked up
because all my thoughts are tangled into one
panicked line of white noise

drown out the voices
drown out the noise
drown out the bitterness yeah that I have stored

(melissa ferrick, north carolina)