off switch

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Turn on the light

And you will see

the room that is my mind

full of calamity.

With hopes,

dreams,

wants and needs

splayed out across the floor.

It's too much to do in a day,

one may say.

But with the mess never seemingly at bay

I find it hard to ever let anyone in.

And just like that — my mind, you win.

So instead I take one last glance at the distance between the floor and it's rickety old door,

And I hit the switch.

And just like that,

the darkness envelopes me

with an air of ease finding a way out of melancholy

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