Go easy on yourself through those loud-in-the-head days,
when your world is a barrage of other people’s happy news,
revelations which leave you feeling stationary and stagnant,
convinced you must have gone wrong somehow despite
placing your feet so carefully, following the map to a tee,
the days when envy has you by the throat,
smothering your capacity to be happy for others,
impossible to shake off or forcibly remove,
nothing to…
