Schiz

Honestly, I forgot the time
I was seventeen and experiencing
adult-onset symptoms and so 
reached out to a trusted adult,
saying, I think I got the craziness
that ended my grandmother and
passed down to my father, but
they said, nah, you’ve just got
demons, so I just believed them,
and we just let the patterns settle
in and deepen. God, what a waste
of time, exponents, and delusion.

first published in Libre