Breathing Like a Fish - ThouShaltNot

I need a mantra

I’m trying too hard

I break the eggshell

And some Russian dolls fall out

Look into wanting

Look deeper, still

And you’ll see the back of your head

Looking down the filthy wishing well

And I learned about my brain

And, oh, it made me smarter

I would break apart the eggshell

I would fall into the water

And I need a mantra

I need something I can imitate

Until I’m breathing like a fish

Until the purple air is white

And these hands have spokes inside them

This body’s branching

See that I’m trying too hard

Always landing, always landing

So make me invisible

To you and to others

I’ve forgotten how to read

I’m getting better

And now I’m looking deeper

I tossed a coin into the ocean

As this well is drying up inside

How these hands have spoken

And I smash apart the Russian dolls

And I’m all cut with slivers

And my blood is breaching like a whale

As the well dries up the rivers

Your body is branching

As I twist to eat the serpent’s tail

I’m trying too hard

This joke just writes itself