‘My Identity: a Disassociation’

Have you ever daydreamed

about getting done screaming?

Have you ever actualized the headache

from doing so? Ever laid in bed

in anguish from doing an act you’ve

not committed? Have you ever been

full of a meal you’ve not eaten, or

felt rested from a slumber you’ve

not received? An internalized war, one

done in plain sight.

You, a trooper who’s proven going through

such hasn’t killed you. You’re the body-

trying to find where it stands, what side,

yours, or the side that’s failing in causing

you bodily demise?