Catharsis

That’s right

You heard me,

I ripped my chest open and

Poured my heart out

Yes I am aware of how

Gory that sounds, but

Just hear me out

This isn’t like some

Aztec ritual that led to

The sun growing my crops

No, this was different

You see, I was drowning beneath the

Sea of There’s Too Much Going On

And I screamed “Help me!”

But nobody came;

I was trapped underwater with

No air to breathe

Until I saw a pelican swoop down

And his beak hit me

With his fourteen foot long wingspan

Jabbing me in the throat;

I thought he would help me,

But he just

Swung at me

To shut me up

I watched the bubbles escape my lungs as they

Climbed to the surface,

But I realized

I can swim past this,

So I swam along side my bubbled breath and

Broke through the surface

It felt like the sun kissed me and said

“I love you”

When I finally reached the top,

And I felt my chest get heavy so

I tore it apart

And grabbed the heavy weight from inside,

My heart, full of negative emotion,

Overflowed with these feelings and splashed into the sea from my arteries

So I poured it,

Poured it like a teapot and watched

The emotions flow into the sea from the aorta

And I felt the catharsis when it was over,

The relief it was to drain my heart

And empty my chest from a weight that

Did not belong to me

So yeah, I ripped my chest open and

Poured my heart out into the sea,

And I had absolutely no regret

When I had to be taken to the emergency room

visualize.