Sleepless Nights

Felt like my head was going to explode, this is the result. [TMS]

Tendrils of dread tiptoe through my chest

Easing it's way up to clutch at my lungs

With irreplaceable and absolutely unruly

Fear

 

To send my breath to tripping

Trip-tripping

Irregular

  Singular

 

To make known this uncertainty

These confounded thoughts

Trip-tripping

Trashing my brain

 

Piece by

Unsettling piece

It turns my mind

  Inside

    Out

 

Breaking

My control

And upsetting

  My pride

 

Sending the world

T

 W

  I

   R

    L

     I

      N

       G

Hurtling it about

At break-neck speed

Ready to send me,

 Face first into a

Dead halt

 

Where the questions persue me

Tirelessly

 

Perusing the answers and

Tossing each solution out

On its' face

 

Mocking me

For even thinking for

One precarious instant

To figure out

How to console

Myself

 

To reason with

These uncertain terms

That I've found myself

Constrained by

 

Love

 

An unfamiliar place for one such as I

As of now

 

It holds me

Spellbound

 

Unused to this flipsided power

Unknowingly Failing

And Disliking the thought

 

This uncontrollable feeling

Taken over

Driving me into

Unknown places

With Familiar faces

Where I can speak

Not a sound

 

Where my words are jumbled

Completly befuddled

 

I struggle to give voice

With no one coherent

Around

 

Reviews

[Sam Severn]

This poem takes you down a tunnel n' right inside your brain, deep down to some tormented torture center of pain! It's incredible how you build the poem to a crescendo, leaving the most peaceful moment for the end, but not leaving the reader in peace....I could feel every sensation you described as if it were my own brain being pounded....A great poem 'bout a horrible moment (n' one I hope n' pray never ever returns!). ㋡