Saturday, 13 September 2025

Pressure cooker

 


You take what is circling you

and you push it down

into the spaghetti knots

of your stomach,

the lid put on tight.

All of that hurt

you start to cook it.

It bubbles. Splutters.

A pressure cooker

ready to burst,

and then you run with it.

Unaware that you are

shaking the contents to the limits.

 

The stress of the day

fires up

and before you know

the flames lick higher, hotter

the heat is rising so fast

the pressure is building faster,

like a squatter

has taken over your guts,

and bolted the doors shut.

As those flames get higher

it is like a ticking time bomb

and time is about to expire.

You feel like your gonna combust.

 

That hurt and pain

which you stored, hoarded

so deep

now bubbles up ferociously

in the boiling acid pot

and separates,

a chemical reaction

that creates even more heat.

Steam whistles through the lid

screeching like a wounded animal,

but you just place your headphones on

let it simmer down for a while...

But it doesn't. It just gets more wild.

Now those bubbles are raging

expanding, exploding against

the walls containing every nerve ending.

And as time is ticking

the pain is upstaging

the moments of joy

you see distantly fading.

 

And BOOM...

The contents of doubt,

hurt and pain

now become a torrent

of rage and anger.

They spread so fast,

splattering out across the room,

your friends,

and anyone that was 

close to the blast.

 

So now you have to scoop up

all that remains,

sponge down the walls,

spray clean the floors,

all whilst the hurt

builds up once again.

If only you'd talked,

shared your hurt, halved the pain,

lightened the load then maybe

you would have seen

the sunshine

that comes after the rain,

but now your view

is splattered with

all the remnants of your rage.

 

 




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