midnight

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
― Franz Kafka

“I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.”
― Layne Staley

“When Things Close In

It feels as though I make my own way
through massive rock
like a vein of ore
alone, encased.

I am so deep inside it
I can't see the path or any distance:
everything is close
and everything closing in on me
has turned to stone.

Since I still don't know enough about pain,
this terrible darkness makes me small,
If it's you, though—

press down hard on me, break in
that I may know the weight of your hand
and you, the fullness of my cry.”
― Anita Barrows, A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.”
― Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy