Let it flow

let me be sad
for a little while

let me slit these veins
and let the words flow out
like lightning emerging
from colliding clouds

with fractal roots
to join the ground
like reaching arms
from positive
to negative

because two forces are needed
to create friction
and without friction
there can be no motion

so let me be naked
with these words on white
let me splatter them right
in a way that matters
to me at least

let me rant
just grant
me the freedom
to be incorrect
in any shape or form
let me break
what you'd call the norm

let me shatter
let me feel what is wrong
so i can make it right
and fight
till the page runs out
till the ink comes to a stop
till the pixels cease
to blink and taunt

let me drown
in these foolish emotions
that cause commotion
like a floundering cat
in the deep end of the sea
let me be me

i don't need to be happy to smile
i don't need to know the way
to find
what i may have lost
in a corner of my mind

so let me be sad
for once
don't lift these lips
don't cheer me on
because i will come back
and i will be the same
but for the moment
let me be
insane

Mindful of sounds

silent thoughts
are the loudest things
scrawling and scratching
on cranium walls

they invade the brain
and jostle for space
clanking and clamouring
for a second glance

like skeleton armies
with a marching drum
their footsteps clod
and echo forever

they wage endless wars
for a little attention
flailing and fighting
cacophony rising

with endless effort
they keep on going
grunting and groaning
their constant blare

but outside the mind
not a peep escapes
as the clockwork rumbles
as the machines crank
of a silent thought
never to be heard