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TITLE (EDIT)
Unrealistic Reality
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AUTHOR
Michelle Mercier
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
- [October 2008]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (3)
Scattered Love (Poetry) - [86 words] So Much Time (Essays) - [740 words] The Dream Of Not Real (Poetry) - [117 words]
Unrealistic Reality Michelle Mercier
I bounce back and forth between reality and my distorted belief of reality. More often than not I can�t tell the difference, I am often so tired, yet I can�t sleep. So, it�s like I�m dreaming while I�m awake. Or am I sleeping, and the dream just feels so real? Am I sleepwalking or am I actually awake doing this? I am so tired I can�t tell.
It�s like I�m always standing in the background, watching my own like from a distance. Like it�s a show that I�m watching and I�m the star. But I�m not the director; I have not control over what�s happening. It�s exhausting watching me. I�m in so much pain. I put so much energy, yet achieve so little.
I need to be emptied, drained; maybe if I were vacantly weightless, just maybe then I could have some peace.
Peace would be finding out that all this time has only been a nightmare. I�m just sleeping. None of this is real. I�m seventeen again and fine and happy. No mental illness. No nothing, just the excitement of youth again.
That�s unrealistic talk if I�ve ever heard any. In twenty-four, and I�m bipolar. I�m not happy. There�s not excitement, except when I�m manic and that�s fake.
I have a fear that this will never end; that this reality is what my life will be. It will never get any better. Luckily, it will also never get any worse.
It just seems like every time I make a little headway, I get blown back so hard the wind is knocked out of me. I feel like I�m always starting everything over again. I�m always moving backwards and not forwards. I feel like I�m in one of those commercials where everyone is moving so fast but one person is standing still, and I�, the ones standing still.
However, I guess for not, that�s my reality.
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© 2008 Michelle Mercier
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
October 2008
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