Today is a challenge
A day where headphones are safer
When black means white and white means rhinoceros
That’s how much sense today makes
I didn’t sign up for this see-saw
This pendulum between kind words and terse tones
Every syllable misheard
Much easier to lose myself in someone else’s angst
Screaming into my eardrums
Then find the space to release my own scream
Guilt free, against the wind
Today is day 72 in a 48ft steel corridor
Floating and bobbing about
and it is clearly a day too much
Tomorrow will be different again
As I repeat my mantra
“This too, will pass”
That Niggling Thought 