That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now

I think no stimulus could be as potent as the one to pee. A feeling frequent and innate is this - the urge to urinate. It comes each day to everyone at work, at play, or on the run. It comes sometimes as home you drive, and soon you're hoping to survive the bursting of your inner dam while sitting in a traffic jam. Then down the street you drive distressed with thighs together tightly pressed. You wish so badly it would cease and then you pray for sweet release. And as you drive, you ache and ache and curse that drink you had to take. You want to speed, but big surprise - a cop's behind you. Squeeze those thighs to keep inside what wants to flow! You do not dare to let it go. Few impulses can so compare. Oh, how you'd love a diaper there! Then home at last, you do a dance. You run while pulling down your pants. And horror, if when once inside, you find the bathroom occupied! WEll, just be glad it's mountain dew you're holding in, not number two! Date: Feb. 27, 2010 An oldie for Chantelle Anne Cooke's Living It Up For Laughter Poetry Contest Submitted Sept. 29, 2022 for Mark Toney's 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 15 Poetry Contest (This rhyme ended up being made into a song which I am unable to figure out how to post the link to, but anyone interested, I can send it to you in an email at your request).