Then My Thoughts No Longer Will Reel Poem by Noah Body

Thoughts flying this way and that
Now that is where I am at

Head in the clouds
Not buried in shrouds

My eyeballs are twitching
That isn't so bewitching

My knees are a knocking
Back and forth they're rocking

Finger's flying on these keys
Faster then even my eye sees

There's no need for sleep
Now isn't that too deep?

I'd be on top of the world
If my thoughts hadn't whirled

Right on past that purpose of mine
Stopping but briefly time after time

It's impossible to slow
Where ever these thoughts go

Faster and faster I spin like a top
I'm heading there and I just can't stop

Ideas and projects tumble through my head
They did even before I got out of my bed

What to do to occupy my mind?
If I only had an idea of some kind

But ideas flit in then they flit out
Of my brain without so much as a doubt

Focus is something I cannot do
It's something foreign to me too

I am not always like this
When I'm normal it's like bliss

Then I can focus and think
I say with no sign of a wink

My limbs don't jump and twitch
And you'll never hear me bitch

That my thoughts are whirling
or that my muscles are curling

Then when I'm down I'm full of tears
I just want to drink so many beers

Insanity runs rampant during that time
And my self image isn't worth a dime

If only normal I could be
Each day for all eternity

But God has seen fit to hand me this test
Try to deal with it I must do with my best

WIth His help I still will prevail
Of His strength I myself will avail

And I'll come out stronger then steel
Then my thoughts no longer will reel