And now for something completely different...

This wasn't what I had originally planned for my next post, but that one has turned into a convoluted beast that I have yet to tame. Blog posts should be short, sweet, and to the point, not 20 page dissertations on the nature of modern thinking. The days are getting short and the days have been gray. Don't read too much into this.

Have you ever been in a room full of people
And no one could see you?
Have you ever walked away from a conversation
And cringed at everything you said?
Have you ever laid awake at night
Replaying each and everything you said
And wished you could never speak again?

Have you ever felt the madness
Creeping in on all sides
And clamped down and held tight
Until the voices faded?

Have you ever dialed the phone
And prayed you'd just get voice mail?
Have you ever talked with someone
And nothing they said fit?
So you'd try again
And phrased your thoughts a different way
But it was like you were talking another language?

Have you ever held your thoughts in tight
Afraid they might escape?
Have you ever felt your heart struggling to beat
Through the pressure in your chest?

Have you ever wished, just once,
That someone understood what you meant?
Have you ever wanted to stand in the middle of the street
And scream until everyone stopped?
Have you ever laid in bed
Wishing the day would never begin
Wanting to stop rather than face another day?

Have you ever wanted to know
If others felt that way too?