Untitled (April 9, 2013)

My mind

A chaotic mess

Like the weather

Outside.

As

My thoughts

Drain away.

Like

An early Spring rainfall

Into street side's storm drains

And catch basins.

Overflowing

From the recent rains

As I struggle

To keep focus.

Seeing

Yet not understanding

The printed word

Before me.

As if

I was reading

A foreign language

Like Japanese

For the first time.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like the use of weather to exhibit the chaos of this speaker's mind...

third stanza is terrific...

and the ending works perfectly...i was hoping in the last stanza for another weather reference to complete that metaphor..but guess there was no room for it..

really good poem.

[therisa]

Thank you, Jacob, for your awesome review. As for the last stanza to complete the weather metaphor, I couldn't come up with another reference. So sorry.

therisa