Paper Poison

Audrey Brumley

Let those pretty words
depollute that racing mind
Comfort it with complicated stanzas
And astonishing themes

Let the poison trickle onto the pages
Covering it in filth
Allow for your soul to know
the substance of life

Let it open up
And let it understand
That someone will fully understand
that anxious mind

Because if someone could create
such beautiful words
That means their mind
was once racing too