Kat's Poetry Pile

Stokes shift

the inevitable crunch is happening
insomnia both intentional and unintentional
gross negligence bordering on abuse
procrastinating on essential functions

desiccated to an atypical degree
i'm shedding weight in a terrifying manner
watching a slow-burn collapse of my life
but there's no time to waste!!

so i steal from my future
and i simply...
just \ b r e a k
that ' s it

i don't seek death anymore
i've moved on from that part
of my life
a life i fought so hard to save

but the void calls
and i yearn for a taste
the best times in my life now are spent
un conscious un thinking un

truly bliss isn't it
a void without even dreams
no worries no pain nothing but nothing and nothing
chemical sedation and emptyness

a forced break from reality
and i needed to snap it off
too many thoughts and too many stimulants
can't sleep anymore either

delerious // wandering the halls of
the chemistry building and thinking
yearning for unconsiousness so i don't need
to feel anymore

i don't want to feel numb i simply
don;t want to feel at all
i joke about haloperidol
i can't get haloperidol nor do i want to do

anything harder than what i've done
i can't afford another addiction
diphenhydramine
this cannot possibly go wrong

i make it home wired so poorly i'd fail
an electrical inspection //
a grad student friend told me that 2 put her to sleep
when the insomnia came

and a friend of mine relied on it as a sleep aid
surely it's safe
i don't want to see the hat man
so i took two and my progesterone since that helps

then i remembered my body mass was about double hers
so i took 2 more and proceeded
to tuck myself in after my bedtime ritual
listening to my organic spectroscopy lecture

where my wonderful professor started talking about
UV-Vis spectroscopy for the elucidation of organic
molecular structures as the weight dragged me deeper int
o unconsciousness

Jablonski diagram
what a wonderful note to black out over
s2 relaxation to s1 before fluorescensce
and there is a reason that the re-emission wavelength

is not the same as the initial absorption
and this is called
a
Stokes Shift

which happened to be the last thing i heard
right before i slipped
and fell straight
into the embrace of the void