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My Mind
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Personal (Melancholy) I keep myself busy
to get my mind
off my own mind.
But soon chores
and hobbies
are finished up.
At those times
the darkness
starts closing in.
Thoughts entangle
when I allow silence
to overpower me.
All the voices
lean negative
and my mood shifts.
Better to keep
myself occupied
than become woe.
This poem demonstrates your
This poem demonstrates your usual verbal skill, but that first stanza---especially those words "to get my mind / off my own mind"---deserves to be in the quotation books.
Starward