Madness by Angela West

When you read this poem, read it while going on a rollercoaster. Feel your stomach and your head churn. listen to the whirring noise from the rails and the obliviousness of it all. Hear the distorted voices and see the people as they wave from a distance underneath. Feel your insides. Now read the poem .....

Madness by Angela West 

If my stomach would stop churning

And the world would stop turning

And my head would stop worsening

If only for one minute

My ears would stop ringing

And the music stop playing

And my head would stop singing 

If only for one minute 

If that voice can just stop talking 

And those birds just stop squawking

And I can stop tiredly yawning 

If only for one minute 

My madness is walking and stalking

Its crawling and withdrawing

Its spawning dawdling galling imploring

If only for one minute 

Its observing reemerging hurting

And its searching urging referring reaffirming

And its worming and concerning

If only for one minute