Healing Ritual

Healing process begins with a shower
Bike to the museum so I can sit somewhere actually quiet
The woods are too close to the roads
And that place is too tender for now, anyway

How peculiar
For I'm almost certain that our conversation results came out net positive
Yet my body's reaction feels the opposite

Synthesis, has something gone amiss?
Reach out a hand
To touch the nettles as an entire
Until it turns out

The leaves are rather weak
It seems as if it's easier to seek feeling, immediate hurt
Look for the house by the church
I try to move forward, but start to revert into myself
The sound and the room overwhelms, and it swells, how it hurts

I house my own noise in the style of a shell, is it worse
To share the same space, in this way of sudden reverse?

And yet
And yet
And yet

The face becomes ugly and wet
It takes me a while to know what to get
Especially when this menu has excellent images, images, images
Images, images, images
To distract me from

I say she ain't what I came here for
You walk me to my steps instead of the door
Maybe it's not beneficial to draw parallels
But repeating the ritual helps to a certain extent