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Poem Details
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| Title: | only floating |
| Author: | VMJ |
| Date Submitted: | 6/24/2013 |
| Poem: |
When you’re manic you forget to breathe Forget your name or how to pronounce it Write so fast your pen can’t keep up Can’t concentrate Can’t remember last night Ideas flow like a flock of birds, squawking, squawking You’re overwhelmed but so alive Like treading water in the open sea Interruptions are fatal Could sink Or worse, lose a thought I wonder, I wonder Is this my voice? Blurring, blurring, a race car across the page When you’re manic a part of you wants To crawl back into the womb To the moments before your brain caught fire And the sea wanted no treading Only floating Treading fingers Keys Life depends on my typing This will change the world I will change the world With a single voice Charged lioness roar.... |