• Home
  • Shop
  • About Gabe
    • More from Gabe Kapler
  • Kaplifestyle Family
  • Why Kaplifestyle?
  • Guest Bloggers
  • FAQs
  • Contact

Kaplifestyle

A Lifestyle and Fitness site by Gabe Kapler

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • Fitness
    • Sample Workouts
  • Nutrition and Meals
  • Drinks
  • General
    • Open Thread
  • Health
You are here: Home / General / Turn the Page

Turn the Page

February 19, 2016 By Gabe Kapler 5 Comments

Empty and dark, the weight room in the desert, rational thoughts and emotions collide
I’ve been here before.
Thought bubble pops, cursive emerges even though I don’t know the alphabet
“You fucked that conversation up, you lost all your cool.”
Your plan is out the window once you get punched in the face.
Broken treadmill sounds are a crazy violation of my space. As fast as it goes. Heartbeat elevation is my drug. Fiending.
8 seconds at a time, the sweat can’t catch me.
Exploding feet, 100 miles and runnin on flying rubber
Arrows up, steep incline, battling me through screeching beeps
and mechanical taps, still no relief.
Form over function or function over form? Bloody red thoughts from the day
Boom, bang, pow….I’m high and Thursday’s a ghost, rest is work, I fancy myself a workaholic, I sleep
  • Tweet
  • Pocket
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Email
  • Print

Related

Filed Under: General

  • John Lofflin

    Damn.

  • John Lofflin

    It is not often you read something raw and unfiltered, and, while you have to respect the pain that created it, you can’t help being enriched by experiencing the truth of another human being.

  • Chester

    Kap thank you for sharing this. Stream of consciousness writing is deep personal marginally subconscious tool for mental health blah blah blah.
    Thanks again, —- Chester

  • Roman Barinas

    This is poetry. At its finest.

  • Nakedgun

    Thx Kap!
    I couldn’t help but be transported back to early-morning swim workouts, where I’d have similar thoughts while staring at the line on the bottom of the pool.
    Thing is; that first taste of success from the process makes it all worthwhile.
    Thanks for the reminder!

Subscribe for Daily Updates

Search

Shop

  • Kaplifestyle T-Shirts Logo T-Shirts $19.00

Popular Posts

  • Showering Without Soap Showering Without Soap 3 comments
  • Turn the Page Turn the Page 5 comments
  • Be Decisive Be Decisive 8 comments
  • Dipping Coffee Grounds Dipping Coffee Grounds 0 comments
  • Getting Your Goat Getting Your Goat 6 comments

Archives

Copyright © 2014. Kaplifestyle LLC · Terms of Service · Privacy Policy

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.