Broken Mind

narrative verse

 

Broken mind

 

I’m trapped inside a broken mind.

Where I am deaf and dumb and blind.

Sometimes I know that I am me

at other times absorbed completely.

 

I lose touch with reality.

I’m someone else no longer me.

 Chaotic thoughts go whirling past

 but thankfully it does not last

 

In moments of lucidity

I know that soon I will break free

I will regain my sanity.

A hope I cling to stubbornly.

 

I’ll find a way to gain control

and make my wilful thoughts obey.

Reintegrate an become whole,

desperately I seek the way.

 

I break loose from this night mare scene

and realise that it has been.

A dreadful dream which held me fast

but now I am awake at last.

 

I make myself a soothing drink

 and for a while I sit and think.

The details fade I grow less tense.

 My conscious mind in self defence.

 

Wipes clean my short term memory

 of anything which seems to be.

Part of the dream that frightened me.

From which I struggled to break free.

 

It was a weird experience

which even now makes little sense.

Only vague memories remain

of what its like to be insane.

 

11-Sep-08 http;// blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers

Reviews

[Donald Meikle]

Been there, done that, deja vu all over again

[alternative_be]

Reading this, I am dumbfounded...
I have no words, for you have said it all and it is here preserved for eternity for you have written it all down so the writing becomes your online memory.
Knowing that you do not know must be the biggest nightmare.
Keep on writing for it jugs your memory in order to prevent your greatest fear.
For now, your mind is brilliant and for ever preserved!
Take care!