Melt Down

Sometimes the pressures simply get too much.

I start to implode,

the weight of all this brutal

angst wearing me down.

 

05/06/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[kentuck14]

Angst . . . America's favorite pastime . . . use to be baseball . . . but it moves too slow. Angst moves at the speed of light . . . . you know, like cockroaches when you turn on the light. I will not preach John, but I have the answer. Best to you my friend.
Tom

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed you are blessed Tom to have found your answer. I must confess this to be mere poetic licence although I know what agnst feels like as I have worn that creased shirt more than once. Many thanks again Sir.

[kentuck14]

I too have a number of old wrinkled shirts in my closet.
T.

[Edie Blue Starfish]

I wonder sometimes if it's like a boiling kettle reaching the whistling point.
I haven't got a short fuse but I imagine it's like that for some, it boils up and boils up.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This is the opposite I hope as one caves in to relentless loss and sadness. many thanks Edie.

[gram linski]

You ruin the haiku
with dark brutal angst of life
Li Po would be proud

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I ruin a haiku? How could you be so mean bro? Have you no heart, no room for compassion? No leeway for a fellow human being? It's a f*****g senryu! But cheers anyway.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

PS loved the senyru reply! So original.

[gram linski]

My sensie once said a senryu is just a uyrnes in the river flowing towards/backwards enlightenfuckingment, daddio

[John Alexander McFadyen]

.....[Giggles like a girl!]

[gram linski]

I rub your shaven
glistening tongue powder pink
I, Headmaster be

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and then the implosion turns explosion....and there are just bits and pieces of a heart left.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

True Jacob. I know you have felt this one. Many thank yous!