Demented Song Poem by Tony Adah

When my mien saddens up
Burns with a desire to let me go
Free myself from the bustle of the world
Talk to me and me alone
When the wave takes me to the beach
Leaves me there alone to talk to the world
Count the shingles
And leave the breaking surfs unseen
Then I am away from this world.

When I quarel with the people that
The world doesn't see
And I am taunted by the world
For my gobbledegook
I laugh at the same world
That created the goad into my tattered world
And the difference between me and this place
Is that while the world dreams in fulfilment
It has refused me the Midas touch
In my shattered dreams
Tilting at windmills.