Can't Breathe

Can't Breathe

A Poem by Declan Cooney
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Ever had an epileptic seizure?

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Can’t breathe

Buckle at the knees

And collapse

Another f*****g seizure

They happen so fast

It’s like one second I’m chill

Smoking’ dough at my home

When I stand, I fall

Crash my dome into the wall

Like I’m tripping’ balls

My sight stalls, my body shakes

Cast into a pall

Of small shadows and shapes

Try to relate

Find an anchoring state

Focus on an object

Repeat that I’m okay

Until my vision goes blind

Like I pulled the plug on my mind

Redefine life as possibly short

Power up my processor

Bring my brain up to score

And then I’m smoking up more

Ignoring the core

Taking the form of that

Which gores my rapport

Enduring the lore

I’m the rant and uproar

I am the riot, the robber

The cop and the w***e

I’m a rapper

I smoke the s**t

I know what it’s for

 

Mary Jane

Ain’t a way to cast off your sin

You beat back your demons

They’ll attack you again

Mary Jane

Just the way you feel inside me

Is enough to make me breathe

It’s enough to make me breathe

X2

 

Clap, clap

Run, stop and breathe

Haven’t had s**t to eat

Adrenaline’s feeding on me

I see an alley

So I book it and hide

Hyperventilation to hypothermia

Will I come out alive?

I need to just keep running

So I stand up to jive

But my brain shuts down

And I crash to the side

I thought that control was mine

And in shaking disbelief

My limbs don’t listen to me

Straighten out I think

Gotta get to my feet

Gotta get to the hood

Gotta get up and run

Gotta get up--  

I don’t feel so good

My muscles spaz

As I stop in my tracks

Like ZAP

Electric cracks thru my back

Face plant into glass

Shatter my mask

Into a f*****g blood bath

Can’t even laugh, plead, scream or cry

Skin numb and iced

Yet frying inside

I just sit there and writhe

And hope that in time I won’t die

 

Mary Jane

Ain’t a way to cast off your sin

You beat back your demons

They’ll attack you again

Mary Jane

Just the way you feel inside me

Is enough to make me breathe

It’s enough to make me breathe

X2

 

Stop stop

I got a hold of it yo

Oh God…god…

Here we go…

 

This is Haze here

Taking animate form

Here to save the day

Reviving this inexplicable corpse

Still down the with demons

And I hope y’all love spells

Cause you see that hand s**t I just did?
NOW YOU’RE ALL GOING TO HELL!

‘Bout to go y’all

I hope y’all love tricks!

Shugu woogoo bah!

I’M OUT THIS B***H!

 

No dreams in between

Just natural thoughts

Like “oh god”

“of f**k”

“I’m s**t out of luck”

But I know indeed

There’s more in store for me

I’m not the kind of dope

To just lay down and bleed

Take a tazer to me

And I’ll razor your face

Agitate my roots

I may wipe out your race

Inspect me from space

Where you’re sure to be safe

My epileptic seizures

Send off EMP waves

I am neither Alpha nor Beta

I’m something much better

I am the 13th inheritor of the Omega

So take your figures

Percentages and mother f*****g odds

Submit to me your sanity

Let me be your God

 

Mary Jane

Ain’t a way to cast off your sin

You beat back your demons

They’ll attack you again

Mary Jane

Just the way you feel inside me

Is enough to make me breathe

It’s enough to make me breathe

Mary Jane

Just the way you feel inside me

Is enough to make me breathe

It’s enough to make me breathe

© 2008 Declan Cooney


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Declan Cooney
Declan Cooney

Phoenix, AZ



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My name is Declan Cooney, I've lived in Phoenix, Arizona all my life. I was born on July 18th 1990. I love rap, rock, and hip hop, however, I still enjoy all types of music. I write about my life most.. more..

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