There is an Itch

There is an itch

You don’t know why its there

But its there

You try to not scratch

You’re not supposed to; you shouldn’t

You still do.

You can’t help but

You scratch in the vain hope that you’ll find its root

You know you won’t.

But you don’t stop.

You don’t not

It is an itch after all

Your effort is to scratch the itch out

To plunge its heart out

But an itch is after all an itch

It exists heartless

Its nature is to remind you

In your most vacant moments

That it exists

And perhaps that you exist

Maybe that you exist because it exists

Or it exists because you exist

Oh, the nature of the itch

How does one even begin to diagnose it?

The ever present itch

The one that never changes, but manifests through change itself

Life remains static because the itch never transforms into something new

Everything that is old becomes new, and then old again

But the itch remains

The never changing itch

Always there to mock

Every dream you ever had

Long before the birth of the itch

The itch that never lets you be

Through its presence reminds you of a time

A time when the itch was never there

When freedom was a physical state

When God was the cure

When you weren’t your biggest fear

But there is an itch

At the furthest end of your mind

In the deepest end of your soul

Between the webs of your fingers

Beyond the maze of your beliefs

In the midst of the shallow pool of your conscience

The home of the itch

That exists because you’ve forgotten

How easy it is to deny its existence

Because its existence depends through acknowledgment  

Through your futile efforts to scratch it out

How can you scratch out something that doesn’t exist?

How can you resist not?

It’s the root of restlessness

The seed of nothingness

It is what has brought you to this limbo, where it was born

Where you live

Where you breathe

Where you sleep

How does one go back to denying?

The itch that has come to define

Everything and nothing that you have become

There is an itch

That was never there before

There is an itch

There is an itch