{"sf1_id":352201,"sf2_id":"J1OzLaAn","title":"Inner Minds","author":"Xandie","words":128,"posted_at":"2012-03-10T21:08:00.000Z","tags":["First Person","Poem","Psychological","Sad"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/352201-inner-minds","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1OzLaAn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/02/69/026971dc-8766-4194-902c-61f87ba78004","description":"Poem","content":"A flaccid ocean stretches\n\nOutwards from my feet\n\nBeing lost in broken imagery\n\nA photograph shattered\n\nA million shards of perforated memories\n\nMirrored destruction in my heart\n\nFloating atop the water's edges\n\nA silver stream of forced rationality\n\nReality fading\n\nWithin the fogged recesses of my secret mind\n\nThe rest purged of any fantasy\n\nMorbid and dull within the walls\n\nOf and empty soul.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSometimes, this ocean is not so calm\n\nWicked with chaotic waves\n\nThrashing with enraged brutality\n\nInside my sordid thoughts\n\nSound and sight\n\nSenses withered\n\nOnly touch and taste\n\nSurreal and concentrated\n\nDream sequences play all around me\n\nAs if I fail to exist within my own mind\n\nInvisible; an apparition\n\nAnd in this moment\n\nI am free.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopy-written to Xander Bradeshaw\n\n  \n  \n\n"}