The tyrant in your head

 the mind overthinks
no way to simplify it
no way to humble it
listen to me

the mind wants to form a hard shell
to calcify and survive on its own repetitions
stay clung between some rocks
safe and unconscious

it overthinks
sensitive and preoccupied
unable to extract anxiety
or even regret

sending us over the edge sometimes
the medicated could attest
their own minds timid to admit
pills and routine

OOOOhhhhhh
there is no offswitch
for the over-reactive mind
sometimes creative mercy
othertimes unkind