Quristienna

If you peeled back the fabric

That ties my hair to skin

And found your way past

The fragile guard of my skull

You would see inside my mind

A thousand thoughts,

Churning and burning, faster than light,

Faster than fast.

You would see how,

In one instant, my mind

Can go from one thing

To something quite unrelated.

I am not your average

Over-the-top thinker,

I am not just some other girl.

I see the things that no one else sees.

I see the world with different eyes.

So, if you tore your way into my mind

You would see

The most beautiful

And the most terrifying world

That has ever crossed human experience.

They say

The gears of my mind run differently

Far too fast

And far too wisely.

I have been twenty two

Since I was six years old.

I am told I have an old soul

And I know I do.

I’m not like the others my age.

I don’t dress like them,

Walk around with preppy slang,

I don’t conform to any one thing.

I’m never going to exist in my own generation.

So if you drilled into my mind

You would find

Nothing but the scattered wind

My brain has already left behind,

Searching for something new

To process and experience

Far too quickly.