Brain Quakes
The entire world starts to shake, uncontrollable every which way
A terrible event, first one ever, eyes unfocused, body quivers
Balance banished toward the floor, clenched teeth blood bitten tongue
Ground no memory anymore, though said my body looked possessed
Guttural sounds in escaped breath, foaming mouth dripping lips
Time escaped no measurements, choking on life itself
Finally the quaking stops, eyes open in unknown blurriness
Body weightless drifting above, fingers and toes clenched in claws
Wracked with multiple after shocks, confused about what it was
Paramedics arrived in 911, rushed in an emergency red lights above
Thoughts thinking but unable to recall, waiting alone in hospital rooms
Wheeled down into this room that holds a large tunnel white tomb
Feeling that death loomed, sometime very, very way too soon
My 40 year first seizure, my 40 year brain cancer the news
All my lifes luck used when I heard days later, benign tumor
And still running on that same luck today...
12/29/18
For Contest: Brain Brevity
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