my ocd

the doctors have been discussing my ocd

they’ve been talking about taking it away-

about silencing it

about quieting it

about stopping it.

but the thing is,

you see,

they can’t take away my ocd.

my ocd is the language in which i opperate

the only way in which i know this world.

everything is a numerical pattern

everything is a color

everything is something

everything is my ocd.

and yes i will admit,

some days it does feel as if it’s killing me.

but i know that i need it

i know that without it i cannot survive

and without it i’m not me.

everything involves the ocd

and it never stops.

i breathe numerically

and if not,

it threatens me.

i have to do it right

i have to obey the ocd

or

it attacks

it attacks

it attacks.

and then

it may very well be-

the end of me.

and this is the painful story of me and my ocd.

heaven knows i wish i could find my way out. i wish it could stop. but it can’t, and i’ve tried. it cannot leave this body. it is the way i live. the way i stay alive. and i am forever it’s host- at least until the day that i die.

ilc