Cliff Wise
Nov 3 · 1 min read
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CALL FOR HELP

Almost every night now

Try to dial

The number pad

Doesn’t work

I remember I’ve

Always had

This problem

But I haven’t

Bad time for an

Argument with myself

It’s just not working

The number pad

Gets smaller

And smaller

Impossible

Now it’s too late

I’ll try again

Tomorrow night

At least it’s not that

Standing naked

In the tub with the

Hand coming out

If the drain and not

Being able to yell

Nothing comes out

Silence

Back then I was

Trying to call

My mother’s name

Now it’s the cops

I guess

That part is still

A bit foggy

Who I’m actually

Trying to call

Funny last night

It was something good

Jimmy Page was

Playing at a

Bluegrass festival

Down the peninsula

I didn’t want Bill

To miss it

Same problem with

The number pad

Though

Maybe my nightmares

May be trying

To help themselves

Fat chance

Of that

Maybe trying to help

Somebody else

    Cliff Wise

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    Book series - Anxiety is not Depression ‘Bring Order to the Chaos’, ‘Daily Reader’, ‘Questions and Answers’. The view from the inside about these disorders.

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