Imaginary Friends. (Voices in my Head)

 

Wow it's 3:00 in the morning and I'm exhausted from all that socialising.

I planned for a quiet night in watching the television, then out of nowhere my friends started materialising.

It's been a while since I had friends I could sit and have a laugh with, I thought this might well give my mood a much-needed lift.

The sofas were full of people from mixed ethnicity, sex, backgrounds and vocations, I do not have any prejudice or practise any form of racism.

The conversation started off friendly and quietly enough, some of them had not spoken for a while and were just catching up.

As the evening moved on and I drank a little more, the conversation started heating up to be honest on occasions it did get a bit too much.

Little tensions arose and an argument started about things from the past, it appears that some memories never fade, and they are here to last

One or two of them got a little nasty in the things they said, I asked them to not be like that, they said we are just being honest would you prefer we lied instead.

Of course, as there always is some tried to dominate the conversation, but I wasn’t going to let just a couple have all the attention.

Eventually my drink ran out and I said to them it is getting late we need to call it a night, I asked if there is any chance, they can now be quiet.

Slowly but surely peace and calm was fully restored, they all left the room as it was before.

I didn't have to clean and tidy up because they never make a mess, I thought maybe now I should try and get some rest.

I could hear the voices in my head say we will be back again very soon; we will let you know when we have entered the room.

You see these are not physical friends that normal people have, these are just voices inside my crazy head.

I have no control over when the voices come and go, when they want to speak, they will let me know.

Most of the time I wish they would finally disappear, because a lot of the time they just bring anger, sadness and fear.

People say I am just a crazy old man and to have voices in my head, but they don't understand.

The truth is my friends are imaginary that I can tell, but the voices in my head they are very real.

 

Nataiella June (2021).