The Clever Mind Knows Not to Know

It becomes a separate part of you. It functions on its own.

Not knowing what you know, it goes somewhere else

in your mind like the shadowed side of a sunflower.

Not knowing what you feel, it's someone else's

body, not yours. Not knowing what day it is

or how old you are because you're a child

in an adult's body wandering through a field you don't remember.

Not knowing how to swim. Not knowing where you were.

Not feeling what is true because the truth is not allowed.

You know only you're afraid, things are bad,