Help Me Please

A poem in 3 parts, coming from a person in distress

(A cry for) Help!

The comfort of love

The warmness of hugs

The cold biting winter

When your hugs are so bitter

You reached out so far

Your fingers will reach

And cling to the people

Who might want to teach

They’ve seen it before

It’s a regular flaw

To seek out some comfort

To drink out of a straw

They want you to be better

Can you do that for them?

Does it even matter?

That you cannot swim

You’re drowning in doubt

Skeptical of assistance

Though you wave at the lifeguard

There’s no need for dramatics

You do not scream help

It takes a few minutes

For you to suck in the water

And fill up your lungs

And kill you

Oops

The lifeguard finally looks down

Rocking (The Beat)

I’m too into the beat

It swims through my body

I’m lost in this groove

I can’t stop this rocking

Going back and forth

Some unnatural pattern

Looking for comfort

In an impossible fashion

I need to be steady

You think to yourself

As you bob to the music

That keeps your mind running

The beat of your life

Means that you are alive

Blood pumps through you

It moves and you sway

The world twirls around you

Like you’re spinning too fast

And why whouldn’t you move

You’re caught up in quicksand

And you can’t stop your motion

You’re sinking in it now

You never stopped struggling

Against all the tides

It’s the end of the line

The Scoop

The old Russian lady

Asked me these questions

And I recited my story

As I have to the presses

I’m famous now

With my problems here lately

I’m not functioning right

So they have to sedate me

I slept through the day

The medicine took me

I was panicked and scared

So I thought it would soothe me

It was a bad choice

No works gotten done

My celebrity’s spread

Through the barrel of a gun

But no that’s not me

The’ve asked it before

That’s not part of my story

What it is hurts me more