Distress

 

God, when it hits the whole world aches!

 

My fingernails feel like blood is pushing through them.

The hair on my body feels like it wants to push out of the skin.

My eyes feel like wire are being tightly wound around them.

My eardrums are going to spit out.

An angry bee hive swarms on each tighten shoulder.

 

God!

 

The back of my shoulders feels like Atlas has had me relieve him.

My toes tingle and pain runs through them like snakes bites.

Pain comes where there is never pain.

I notice one pain then the next, then the next, then next,

Then the next, then the next, then the next…..

 

When It Hits!

 

You know it is all bullshit and you can’t stop or even slow it down.

You want to end it, terminate it, kill it, this immense feeling of slow pain.

All my life is pushed through the little hole of pissed off pain.

My chest feels like a balloon is being inflated in it .

I feel like striking out, screaming at the world, Screaming, Screaming….

 

 

The Whole World Aches!

 

A tingling of null ness is in every part of my body.

My bones are as warped steel, torque and twisted in a vice.

Exhaustion, swimming underwater in a very used sewer main.

A dulled stick pushing through my forehead from the inside.

The continued wailing and thrashing of the baby elephant inside.

 

When It Hits, The Whole World Aches!

 

I’m in it, there is no escape, no way out, no ending will every come.

This is my never ending sucky, slimy, pissed on, pissed off life.

My life is the end of a roto rooter wire after being pulled through a toilet.

Everything is colored pollution gray with dirty green fungus.

I hear sound without substance, absent, missing, nothing, gone, silent.

 

God!

 

I want to horror scream, and I can’t release enough to even do that.

Where have all the good times gone, where have all the happiness gone.

I will never see it again, never, never, never, never, never, never.

God, God, remember the other side, remember the other side,

 Remember the other side, remember the other side, remem…...

 

                                    Roland James  February 2001

 

 

 

 

Teri, my great equalizer says

Sounds like a huge dumb, a poem has cadence.

 

Roland, the great justifier says

But sweetie, I’m just trying to tell how it feels.

 

                                    Roland James February 2001