Emotional Acrobat – Written Monday 9th May 2022 (Aged 47)

Emotional Acrobat

i am not the emotional acrobat
i was
twenty five years ago
i am not a comedy juggler
and i stopped wearing those clown shoes
when i was about twenty two
i am not the self absorbed boy
soaked in trauma
and set fast in toxicity
it was the best of times
but the reality was
i broke my mind

i am not the emotional acrobat
i was
twenty five years ago
when emotional exterminates
ruled my land
and occupied my personal parliament
they call it, ‘growing up’
i call it life, showing up
living the available highs and lows
self drama
and which quickly go
days you make so personal
but days that you never really know




James Garratt – Monday 9th May 2022


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