catharsis, is deadly.

Catharsis is tricky

it may even be a problem

or a painful lie

in helping you understand

at what could help you

in your healing

​

eating,

is cathartic.

​

reading about a similar situation as you,

is cathartic.

​

writing yourself a lie,

about what you would've rather happened,

is cathartic.

​

and so is revenge,

cathartic.

​

so I wonder,

if we could ever really tell the difference

about what is truly good for us,

and what isn't.

​

catharsis can help

but should we seek it?

does ruminating on painful stories

with no love or person to

help us out of the prison we dig ourselves

ever truly worth it?

​

as creators,

artists, writers, music makers

we thrive off of stories

off of the dreams of others

and our own dreams too

​

our self-driven purpose

can keep us entrenched

in the stories we tell

the stories we pay attention to

and the catharsis they bring

​

in the hopes of seeking catharsis

perhaps creators trap themselves

in their own nightmares

and in the nightmares

of others long ago, experienced.

​

perhaps,

we should be more wary

about what we find catharsis in

and what we allow ourselves to feel it from

​

perhaps,

we are hurting ourselves

by not trying to find catharsis

in even the stories that bloom dreams.

​

perhaps,

that by pretending we can only experience pain

until the pain is fully gone

do we seal our own fates

forever plummeting us further

into depression.

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Contemptuous Man

I Want