Stress Balls

Ruminating, ruminating
Spinning, conflating
Everything at once
Ends up in nothing at all
And I’m wound up tight
A hardened stress ball

Perseverating, instigating
My own mind, my own mind
Internally, externally
Softly yet forcefully
Fixating, debilitating
A hardened stress ball

Squeeze me, squeeze me
See if the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze me, squeeze me
To the mirror I go to beg
See if this rock will bleed
A hardened stress ball

I shut up, you shut down
No diamond though
My brain wrings out
As hardens the globe
And crashes down the hall
A hardened stress ball

Originally written in August 2021