Since When Did This Lack Ceiling?

I laid there motionless

Aside from the choking fits

From terror, is that so wrong?

To think that (I I I I I I I)

I don't belong (I I I I I I I)

The monsters inside that room (I I I I I I I)

Got sharper, my attitude (I I I I I I I)

For Laurie, skin to skin (I I I I I I I)

He is me and I am him (I I I I I I I)

I overhead (I'll sit still while you are counting)

You bait my lure (say it wrong and face the drowning)

You think I won't put up a fight (staked with needles on the couch)

I get what I deserve (get up and risk bleeding out)

The next day we all awoke

To act like it's all a joke

As if we did not change

Our problems were so mundane

I drove home past the stream

To slip in my old routine

Grab groceries, carry on

Self checkout a wrapped black swan