Unnatural Disaster Poem by Florence Badejo

Sitting down while the world is turning, watching pictures pass me by.

Can't get up, my mind is burning, water streaming from my eyes.

The tears won't quench the burning fire that is raging from my heart.

Why can't you see your questioning is only tearing me apart.

I don't know how I don't know when but please just let me go to sleep.

My body won't stop quaking now I'm falling in the darkness deep.

I cannot breathe please make this stop I don't think I can hold myself.

I cannot see I cannot think I've drifted off my worldly shelf.

If only you could understand what has been storming in my mind.

Maybe then you'd start to try and let me have my life unwind.
~02/19/11~