I don't think linearly like you
and quite frankly?
I don't want to.
I'm a neurodivergent “weirdo"
wired with a GoPro
in my "dopey" head,
clicking patterns
everywhere I tread.
Earth on the surface.
Fire in the back.
That paradoxical pressure
crushing me inside and out.
A cruel kinda fuckery
Hidden.
Only felt internally
Designed to snap me.
But all that tension?
That's my reinforcement.
like prestressed steel tendons
loaded with snapback.
I thrive under pressure so hard
I hold myself upright
like a suspension bridge
floating above
my own collapse.
I've been beaten to the ground-
hell, even into a hole beneath it.
Crushed by unexpected shit
over
and over
again.
Compressed long enough
to become something
unfuckwithable.
A diamond.
So yeah -
my intensity is the very thing
that causes my demise.
And yet -
that same intensity
will resurrect me
from my own ashes.
Burn me down.
I will ALWAYS
get back up.
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