Static // BΛRBIΞXX (c) 2025

Static and I can't see

The wrong turn got ahold of me

I wander into where you are

But there's something that just won't let me go

Tried to walk away from here

Yet I can't get beyond the fear

I call your name and then I fall

When I'm drowning no one hears me call

I don't know how to change

There is another place

But it won't do

It takes a bite out of the best of me

I know that sounds a little underneath

It just can't let me go

Locked me into its soul

But I'm not here

I cannot inhale the waters under there

Static and I can't go

Stuck within this body hold

I wish there was another place to be

I just wake up without a source of me

Tried to just surrender here

Letting go of what else could appear

It bites down harder when I fight

I tried to run but I don't know how to climb

I don't know how to change

There is another place

But it won't do

It takes a bite out of the best of me

I know that sounds a little underneath

It just can't let me go

Locked me into its soul

But I'm not here

I cannot inhale the waters under there

Static stops the lullaby

Calling from the other side

I press my ear against the cold

Stuck to the stories I'm being told

The quiet pulls me underground

Where every bone remembers sound

A haunted choir humming in my chest

A warning that I’ll never fully rest

I don’t know how to change

It falls through locked up chains

It takes a bite into my peace

Dragging down whatever’s left of me

It still won’t let me go

Keeps pulling at my soul

And I’m not here

I’m sinking into the water when its under here

- Barbara Christensen 

And that's what it feels like....