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    The poem describes feeling disconnected from oneself and one's life, like an observer watching their own life from outside. The speaker feels like an imposter in their own head and wishes they could cure the sleeplessness and disconnected feelings that plague them. They describe wanting to take off and feel at home but feeling like they are not the one in control or flying. The disruptions have taken over and they hope someday to be able to give these feelings up and function normally.

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    The poem describes feeling disconnected from oneself and one's life, like an observer watching their own life from outside. The speaker feels like an imposter in their own head and wishes they could cure the sleeplessness and disconnected feelings that plague them. They describe wanting to take off and feel at home but feeling like they are not the one in control or flying. The disruptions have taken over and they hope someday to be able to give these feelings up and function normally.

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    The poem describes feeling disconnected from oneself and one's life, like an observer watching their own life from outside. The speaker feels like an imposter in their own head and wishes they could cure the sleeplessness and disconnected feelings that plague them. They describe wanting to take off and feel at home but feeling like they are not the one in control or flying. The disruptions have taken over and they hope someday to be able to give these feelings up and function normally.

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    The poem describes feeling disconnected from oneself and one's life, like an observer watching their own life from outside. The speaker feels like an imposter in their own head and wishes they could cure the sleeplessness and disconnected feelings that plague them. They describe wanting to take off and feel at home but feeling like they are not the one in control or flying. The disruptions have taken over and they hope someday to be able to give these feelings up and function normally.

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    “I’m the Pilot But I’m Not the One Flying”


    Written by Ashley Kirkpatrick

    I’m an imitation of a human being


    Watching my own life be lived1
    Wondering if I will ever wake up from dreaming
    Or if this is what is meant to happen instead

    Nothing in my life was ever that serious


    I’m an imposter to the thing that has broken inside my head
    I wish I could cure it like a virus
    The sleeplessness brings me further down into my bed

    Walking to nowhere
    Can’t seem to focus
    Nothing matches the way I feel
    Do I even feel?

    My mind is with the planets


    Not in a good way
    Why does one bad thing bring me more
    I just want to take off
    I want to feel at home
    And I’m the pilot but I’m not the one flying

    The disruptions got the best of me


    Everything is slow motion when I need it to speed up
    I’m disconnected from reality2
    Hoping someday I will get to give this up

    Walking to nowhere
    Can’t seem to focus
    Nothing matches the way I feel
    Do I even feel?

    My mind is in the planets


    Not in a good way

    1
    Steven Jay Lynn, et al. “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Challenging Conventional Wisdom.” Current
    Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 21, no.1, (2012): 48-53, JSTOR.
    2
    Lynn, et al., “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders,” 48.
    Why does one bad thing bring me more
    I just want to take off
    I want to feel at home
    And I’m the pilot but I’m not the one flying

    They tell me half of people feel this way3


    So how is anyone functioning
    I’m the intruder of everyday
    Wishing to get a hold of what is breaking me

    Walking to nowhere
    Can’t seem to focus
    Nothing matches the way I feel
    Do I even feel?

    My mind is in the planets


    Not in a good way
    Why does one bad thing bring me more
    I just want to take off
    I want to feel at home
    And I’m the pilot but I’m not the one flying
    Oh I’m not the one flying

    3
    Lynn, et al., “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders,” 48.
    Work Cited

    Lynn, Steven Jay, et al. “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Challenging Conventional

    Wisdom.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 48–53.,

    www.jstor.org/stable/23213120. Accessed 10 Apr. 2021.

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