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Vertigo #1

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Vertigo #1
 
I find myself gasping for breathe
 
dizzy and pushing at nothing
 
as hard as I can
 
 
Each day
 
I am breathing deeply
 
anxiety attack
 
after anxiety attack
 
 
I have let you take over my days and nights for far too long
 
 
My past has once again backed me into a corner 
 
 
I'm pacing back and forth
 
spanning the range from panic to isolation
 
fight to flight
 
Trying to gather myself
 
like bits of tattered cloth
 
ready to cover these oozing wounds
 
 
You sit fat
 
monstrously feasting on my psyche,
 
my heart races 
once again with  fear
 
a fear so deep
that I never forget for one second
that you may still be roaming these open streets
 
 
hidden in the shadows?
 
sitting on the subway?
 
living in the apartment next to me?
 
 
Who knows how many things you’ve broken in the last 14 years?
 
People you’ve killed without notice?
 
 
 Free to appear when ever I let down my guard
 
 
Even now, I am still fighting you,
 
after all these years
I still where a knife in my boot
 
just in case
you turn that corner.

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Barbi Touron

Thu 15th Mar 2012 17:15

sorry to freak you out, just playing a found word game and this is where it went. Beware the psychic vampire!

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Laura Taylor

Thu 15th Mar 2012 09:43

Well, it scared the shit out of me Barbi, and disturbingly reminded me of a person in my own life who I dread to see, dread to think of, dread to dream of (but still do) who still feasts monstrously on my psyche. That's a great line, btw.

It's your piece so work on it if you will, but I kinda like the partially disjointed feel to it...feels like inside my head sometimes.

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Barbi Touron

Wed 14th Mar 2012 18:32

still working on it, the flow really needs a lot of work, any suggestions? it seems flat, boring!

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