PRECIPITOUS RAINSTORM IN MY HEAD

My thoughts run wild like a child beguiled

Can’t follow instructions or conversation

Want my mind reconciled

My mind runs ahead of me screaming directions

In desperation I hear reflections abound in my head

Talking so fast I get lost trying to follow

So much confusion right here in my brain

Follow the next thought with exasperation

Turn left here now turn right and take this detour

The allure of this thought or that conjecture calls

I can’t keep track, my thoughts run so fast

Runs fast from past to current newscast

Weather overcast, Look through clothes amassed

What should I wear today?

Why am I an outcast?

I must be miscast

The details flabbergast me

How long can all this last?

Thoughts flit like a bird from tree to bough

I attempt to plow through my to do list

But only get so far when my mind races again

No wonder I’m so tired at the end of the day

I can’t keep my mind still, keep it

So lively inside, I talk to hundreds of people a day

Only it’s only inside my head where the conversations play

My rich inner life never occurs in real time

It’s like a ball bouncing between very close walls

Like music, my reflections rise and fall

Uncontained by restraints

My mind races on uncontained

An eruption occurs 10 times a second

I try to check in with the present

With frequent dissent into intent

I reckon my mind’s in a rush like

A kiss and first blush, my mind
moves so fast I feel like I been running all day