Dosage
growing up
my body
stopped
sane brain
chemicals
that are in
others naturally
passed by me
completely
stopped
reflecting
because
not absorb
ing i've been
reflecting
lately on
my childhood
and misunderstood
of who i was or would
become
so many factors
in making a fact
ory made human
being by being
programmed
without yet
within but not
knowing what
is missing and
so i grew up
a short history
no mystery of
what i've be
come since Mum was
always randomly turn
ing the radio dial of
reality so we grew
knowing and knew
all styles and forms
but adding more
my Dad military sworn
dictated discipline but
also liberalism since
he was an artist of many
sorts and banned books
were in our library
paint was freely fingered
for feel and application
no matter what our
family's destination
on the move from
place to place
always some
thing new to see and
taste leaving a mind
open that had already
been cracked i look
back and remember
what doctor's didn't
know then
so now here i am
in the here and now
thinking i'm a free
thinker but as music
plays continuously
in my elevator mind
i'm going up and or
down without a
ground wire
so now i am
a brain in a b movie
beaker keeping
kept in bodily
form from turning
Virginia Woolf or
Platt or perhaps
Hemingway since
i'm a man so can
relate but too late
my psychiatrist
and i have found
a proper balance
in mind meaning
my mind for what
was not provided
for if so Darwin
would have had me
extinct by now not
able or capable
to survive
so pharmaceuticals
balance my attitude
and keep me alive
then after years of
song singing i was
being bored
by the musical form
so changed my mind
to my university degree
i had for all time
then i knew not
by chance but
a strictly not
happenstance
when you were
introduced to
me, i, like a junkie
had the fix and
like an election
my votes are all in
and as i A D D
i simply need sleep
and
another
dose of
you
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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