- STRESS -

Building ever so slowly, resting on my mind

Growing by each second, a weight of a different kind

Because it is not with my strength

Nor my muscle can I lift

I cannot simply drop what I feel

As it continues to drift

From my head to my stomach

It churns and burns my body inside

It feels as though I cannot hide

With stride, that I feel so greatly, I try

To bottle it up

But bottling it up is not wise to do

It's too great, I feel, though I have not a clue

How to make this all wash over

Do I erase or do I spew?

Alright, I understand

Thank you for slowing your reel

Let me just tell you how exactly I feel:

Every minute, every hour, every time I feel at peace

You waltz in like you own me

It makes my patience decrease

As you go on and on about what you need

As if I'm some servant, a maid, who fills your greed

Your damn pleas and begs are getting very old

I might as well go and knock myself out cold

As the same song and dance

Leaves my mind in a trance

I feel that you need to pause

Just one second, please, and because

I can't bear to handle this insanity anymore

I'm done with the game, I don't care about the score

My mind is racing, it's going off of its rails

The train is pacing, trying to align, but fails

As it crashes and slams against the walls of my brain

All of this pain, I feel so much darn disdain

Don't speak another word

Do NOT give me the speech

Stop yelling at me, PLEASE, I don't want to hear you screech

It's too much, I can't take it

The stress has sunk in

From my head to my lips, I advise you, my kin...

I will shout my own cry from the north to the south

Pardon my harsh words

But PLEASE

SHUT

YOUR 

Mouth.

Edited May 6, 201511 yr by Firaga Sensei

Fire, nice poem you got here. Good job!