The Static (ADHD)
Wait— What was
I doing? Oh… right.
Never mind.
I had a thought
Then lost the thought
I walked upstairs Forgot what I forgot Phone in my hand Three
tabs open Started one thing
Now I’m somewhere else I hear the clock
But time moves fast
Five minutes feels like an hour Then an hour disappears Just like
that
Too much Too fast Every thought Running past I try to catch
one But another gets through My mind is a room With a
thousand things to do
STATIC
RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD ONE THOUGHT
THEN ANOTHER ONE INSTEAD STATIC
I CAN’T TURN IT DOWN EVERYTHING IS LOUD WHEN THERE’S NO SOUND
STATIC
STOP—WAIT—GO I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE MY MIND WILL GO STATIC
I’M LOST IN THE NOISE TRYING TO FIND ONE CLEAR VOICE
Yeah
Started cleaning, found an old picture
Got distracted, now I’m scrolling through my filters Saw a video,
then I thought about a song Then I remembered something I’ve been
putting off too long
Now I’m making plans at two AM Thinking,
“This is it, I’ll finally start again” New idea,
new goal, new thing Ten minutes later,
I’m onto something I can hyperfocus,
lose the world Forget the time,
forget the rest Then the smallest little task Can feel like such
a test
Too much Too fast Every thought Running past I try to catch
one But another gets through My mind is a room With a
thousand things to do
STATIC
RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD ONE THOUGHT
THEN ANOTHER ONE INSTEAD STATIC
I CAN’T TURN IT DOWN EVERYTHING IS LOUD WHEN THERE’S NO SOUND
STATIC
STOP—WAIT—GO I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE MY MIND WILL GO STATIC
I’M LOST IN THE NOISE TRYING TO FIND ONE CLEAR VOICE
Maybe I don’t need To move like everyone else Maybe my mind
is loud But that doesn’t make me less
One thing
One step
One moment at a time
I don’t have to catch Every
thought That crosses my mind
STATIC
RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD ONE THOUGHT
THEN ANOTHER ONE INSTEAD STATIC
I CAN’T TURN IT DOWN BUT I’M LEARNING HOW TO FIND MY
WAY AROUND STATIC
STOP—WAIT—GO LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW I’M STILL HERE IN THE OVERFLOW
Wait…
What was
I—
Oh. Never mind.