TORRENTIAL RAIN IN MY BRAIN

Running rampant like water spilling from a broken damn

Thoughts tumbling and turning over and over';

unable to focus on any one item, person, song, or thought
it is a carnival of the mind!  Just listen to the noise!
Hear the barker calling drawing your attention to the unsavory sideshows.
I am paralyzed to move; decision-making fraught with dread.
Perhaps I'll visit my safe place where no one else exists but me.
It is peaceful there.  no noise..feeling out of harm's way.
Annd when I return, perhaps creativity will come with me....and
with that there is always focus and a little extra energy!
But, at the moment confusion and distortion are creating a quandry

I am ultimately alone to sort things out. What is perception?
What is real?  Why could I not be born with a "normal" mind?

Intelligence, creativity, the ability to "pull things off"

are wonderful but there is a price.
Copyright 2012 Michele Jajdelski Campbell

ADIEU

My brain cannot wrap itself
around all that has happened
in the last 24 hours.

The decisions I had to make
My psyche shuddering through
quickly and easily – a matter of love

Now, turning over in my mind
ALL  the things we said to each other,.
Consciousness evades me.
I see your face gradually change
 from smiling to  anguish: writhing in pain.Then I realize I’ll not see you again.

Trees appear everywhere and I am in
a forest of verdure and wildflowers
I feel so warm and loved.
I remember our night walks in the rain
Never to take place again.But you  will be with me always.

             Adieu

Copyright March 2012  Michele Jajdelski Campbell