Occam’s Razor
Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”

 

Sometimes when he speaks to me

I want to cry.

I don’t know why

I just do.

On the one hand, he’s so special

And on the other

he cuts me.

He is reality after all.

I have never met a human being so dead set on

Weeding through life’s crap

To the point where

It all reeks.

Even the good stuff.

Everything we touch is not made of gold

It’s just gold tone

Turning our hands green as we speak.

I almost cried today listening to him.

I can’t remember exactly what it was that made the tears

Begin to form.

It was probably just the truth.

About me being so fickle

And about him being so dead set on pointing it out.

 

Beginning relationships are the worst for me.

When I start them

If he seems to be the right one

I tend to be all about them

And then fall back from them

If only to think about what I’m doing

its got to be off putting.

I just don’t know how else to get myself

On solid footing

To not be such a dreamer

In a world full of dream killers.

I find myself floating on a cloud

And then realize

It’s the storm kind

Ready to pour all over me

And my fragile world

And my way of life

And all that I hold dear.

 

So I try to choose my clouds carefully.

I try to not be “that girl”.

But I am.

I lure them in

And then have no idea what’s

Supposed to happen next

And if they’re not the type with a plan

Forget about it.

And if they are?

Forget about it.

Falling in love can literally take days

Probably because I have no idea what love

Truly means to me.

It’s like I’ve been given

A crumpled up blueprint

And I’m reading it

Broken

Backwards

And upside down.

 

Who builds buildings or

Life’s work

Or kingdoms that way?

Apparently only me.

 

Which explains so much

And leaves so much more

Up to interpretation.

 

It would be so much better if I would just allow myself this aching.

If I could just say out loud what I’m afraid of.

But I won’t.

I deny the obvious

Because I feel in control enough

Of everything uncontrollable

to change it.

My naivety

Is exactly what hinders me

And my fear of both

Freedom

And marital bondage

Is what plagues me.

It keeps me stuck

In one place

Ever growing in mind

And never moving in spirit.

 

I seem never to move.

My body is stuck

In the place I hate

Between

Having everything

And wanting nothing.

Between wanting everything

And having nothing.

 

I wish it were that easy

To just choose one

And go with it.

Is it that easy?

I doubt it.

But it certainly can

Not possibly be this

Hard

Either.

 

Occam’s Razor it is then…

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”

 

Which means

Essentially

Try not to be so complicated for no damn reason.

Meanwhile, the chorus in my head begins singing

 

Good luck with that…

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