Tuesday, 8 July 2025

What if?

 


What if?

That question keeps

floating around my head.

It’s hard to escape

from this mental space

when it’s been your hiding place

for so long,

but when times are tough 

it can turn on you.

Rolling through

a list of bad outcomes

to every roll of the dice

and it just keeps stopping on

the one

with the bright flashing

red lights.

 

You start to see symptoms

Everywhere.

Systems stop being there to give care

and more a place to sit in despair,

just waiting for answers,

when the phone never calls.

Waiting rooms all look the same

through eyes that only see

in shades of grey,

and when it’s your

name blinking loud,

you walk like you’re

carrying your own casket down

the endless corridor

that crowds around.

 

What if?

It’s such a direct question,

but you want to

know the truth.

What if the worst is true,

you need to know

but knowing sends you

spiralling into your brain.

A place that used to be so clean

now is cluttered with so much rubbish

that it’s hard to keep yourself sane.

 

So, you sit on the question

until you and it

can no longer coexist.

You let it out, shouting,

crying, despairing,

but you realise that any

answers are irrelevant,

because you can only really

follow the pathway that has

already been laid out.

 

 




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