Hijacking The Body Poem by Dónall Dempsey

HIJACKING THE BODY



Your smile climbs and climbs
to the top of your delight



throwing itself off
to transform into laughter



as it floats down
using a big wicked grin



for a parachute
landing amongst the thrill



of not knowing
what happens next until



it begins and becomes
hijacking your body



the dance of synapse to synapse
joy exploding from brain cell to



brain cell almost out of
your mind



only after when your body escapes
back to stillness



will you know what went on
listening to the tall tales



of memory
drunk with time



and how still
the music seeps



into the very core
of you and who



you can be
stains the mind



each red corpuscle
dancing in your veins



a joy
that could not be



and should not be
explained.