The room is still the room I knew, But something in the distance moved. The brainstem guard has left the door; It doesn’t scan the same old war. The past still happened, that is true. It just stopped happening right now, too. My eyes can turn, my head can follow, Space is wide where fear made it narrow. The nervous system checks the date: “That was then, and this can wait.” Everything is a new perspective after DBR + AT. Everything is a little bit brighter; There’s more dimension To the leaves on the trees outside And it’s so weird. Nothing changed, yet everything appeared; The world was always here, But now I’m here. The colliculus can look around, The locus coeruleus can quiet down. A jolt once treated every “then” As evidence it came again. Now shock can loosen, breath can land; My body isn’t under old command. Prediction softens into choice, The present gets a clearer voice. Memory keeps what it has known Without mistaking it for home. Everything is a new perspective after DBR+AT. Everything is a little bit brighter; There’s more dimension To the leaves on the trees outside, And it’s so weird. Nothing changed, yet everything appeared; The world was always here, But now I’m here. Orienting tension, shock, affect Slow enough to notice, safe enough to connect. Not deleting memory, not denying pain; Giving time and place back to the brain. The old alarm was brilliant at surviving It just kept yesterday arriving. Now the past is context, not command; A map I carry, not the land. Is this what green was always like? All those veins inside the light? Was the sky this far away? Did the shadows always play? It’s so weird. It’s so weird. The danger isn’t steering, So the details reappear. Everything is a new perspective after DBR+AT.. Everything is a little bit brighter; There’s more dimension To the leaves on the trees outside And it’s so weird. The past is real, but it no longer Has to manufacture here. The world was always waiting And now I’m here. The leaves have depth again. The light comes through again. Nothing outside had to change For me to meet it differently.
