Sometimes you just gotta

Fill the milk jug

From what has spilt

From the churn

Of your tears

 

Sometimes you just gotta

Lie foetal on the floor

Relearn to crawl and walk

Until you can

Again, stand tall

 

Sometimes you just gotta

Remove the happy mask

And bare the despair

To begin the face lift

Of repair

 

Sometimes you just gotta

Sit in the wardrobe

In the dark

To hide and seek

When to push the door ajar

To let the light take a peek

 

Sometimes you just gotta

Go so cold you freeze

Numbing yourself from

The searing pain

Then very, very slowly

defrost yourself again.

 

Sometimes you just gotta

Scream so loudly in your car

Where no one can hear

To release the choke

of your fear

That you just can’t clear

  

Sometimes you just gotta……