Euphoria

Original: February 2006. Revised: June 2007.

The feeling haunts me,
it fills every dream and every nightmare.
The euphoric rush,
the mental flush.
It's a pharmaceutical vaccum cleaner,
there to suck up all your pain.
It tells me,
"I'm glad to see you again,
old friend.
Don't fret now, girl:
it will all be gone in just a matter of seconds."
But it tends to add,
"Just had to come back to me, didn't you?
I said it before and I'll say it again:
I am the only love that can keep you living."

Reviews

[S. Georgia]

I like this poem, the style is brilliant. I love how you personified the feeling, and gave it an almost human personality in just those view lines. I believe you captured the emotion in this poem in one of the best ways possible. I will say that the second every in the second line does interrupt the flow of the poem a bit, other than that it flows perfectly in my opinion.

Brilliant poem.

[Plexiglass]

This is a cool poem. I like how you used the personification of this effect. I liked the phrases you used and I thought you put together some pretty cool images. There are just some things I think could be different, I think in this poem a lot of times you're writing too much in complete sentences. Where if you used fragments and maybe took out a word to increase the flow it would make it a stronger poem. For example I don't think you need the second every in the second line. Just stuff like, seems kinda trivial but a poem is short so it makes a big difference. Dynamite last line too.