Print

Print


In a message dated 10/8/00 6:58:45 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

Is this far enough back?  I have everything you've posted since April.
Eleanor

<<
 When the meds wear off

 First I feel uneasy
 like a hurricane is brewing off the horizon
 or that I know there is something wrong
 that I can't put my finger on

 then begins the game of Russian roulette
 what body part is going to quit working this time?
 Usually it's my right hand, which is the first betrayer,
 curling up, and strumming my shoulder

 but sometimes it's the right leg
 foot curling up and in
 legs bouncing around
 like fish on dry land

 I notice my right eye won't open
 and my mouth doesn't work
 mumbles come out instead of words
 and saliva builds up,
 to drool down my chin like I'm 1 or 100

 as my body slowly freezes
 my mind comes alive
 screaming fight or flight warnings
 to a body whose forgotten survival instincts
 even older than consciousness

 as the mind yammers and stammers its warning
 the body goes quietly numb
 and I silently wonder
 how could I be so dumb

 after two years of this shit
 you would think I would learn
 take your meds on time
 or this is what you become

 but when the meds are working
 I feel so much like me
 not this shaking drooling idiot
 that's all the world can see

 and when I take the meds
 in 15 min, 30 tops
 the mask that hides the real me
 back in place does drop

 but sometimes I sit and wonder
 what part of my body has quit working
 that the meds hide from me
 and where will my mind go
 when the meds can no longer set me free

 bob armentrout copyright 2000
 __________ >>