internal galaxy - by ines - delicate

my own little mess

These past few weeks I’ve been stuck in an eternal turmoil, where I cannot seem to do the things I want to do and, at the same time, I can’t spend any of the time I have peacefully. It’s like my brain is a cat with a paw perpetually pressing the U key; in a state of constant buffering, a canvas with only one dot on it but that feels so, so busy, it makes my mind spin. A voice within sings of all the lights I’m not chasing, the roads I’m not crossing, the time I’m not spending, or not enjoying, or living to the fullest; just wasting away. Or maybe it’s not a voice, but rather a really heavy…

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