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Thoughts come in without permission

Crowding the edges of my mind

They stay longer than they should

Until I forget where I started

I answer people automatically

Smile at the right expected moments

I learn how to look present

While nothing feels anchored inside

Everything repeats itself quietly

Same reactions, same patterns

There is static in my mind

Filling every quiet space

I stop fighting for a moment

And something shifts in silence

Static still inside my mind

But it doesn’t take it all

I’m still here inside the noise

Not fixed, not gone

Just going on