I am so very sorry. I didn’t mean to say blow it all up. I just felt helpless and couldn’t do it myself. I was asking for someone to take the burden off of me. My father who went before me couldn’t turn out all the lights. I have been left with the task of taking his baseline personality and turning it into a bass line from my furrowed face causing borderline personality reverb from silence into the minds of those who would also split their faces into a smile if only the lights ever came on for them. I am alone, left with an impossible task, to make sound from silence and light before that. So I must be the loudest and the brightest to stretch halfway around the world satisfying my own reach to shake hands with myself every time an alarm goes off and the lights come on. I am not my father but I promise I will not turn out all the lights and make them go boom.
FALL DOWN GO BOOM
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This blog is a multifaceted writing/journaling approach to recovery from mental illness and addiction. I am not a comedian but rather a rattled jewel of sarcasm encased in art. Health, humor, and love is what I seek under the umbrella of family. View all posts by Francis Erich McElroy
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