Poem: Dropped Mic – 04/02/20

 Speakers blare, expressing my ravaged thoughts as I 
 fail to stop and observe those surrounding me.
  
 My decibels ail those in proximity,
 near and far, their pain is surfacing.
  
 While I, an obnoxious lass in my second decade 
 smile and smile
 at the effect I now realise I am having.
  
 Finally, they, you, them, are all forced to listen,
 I cannot turn back the clock to decade two from three,
 for some things, truly, I am sorry.
  
 I up the ante and progress to screams – 
 will you not hear me?
 cannot you understand me?
 I am here, before your eyes,
 begging to be seen and needed.
  
 The clock ticks – 
 tick tock
 a cuckoo sings, heralding one hospital admission 
 or another,
 and the microphone drops
 an echoing boom,
 there exists permeating silence within this room.
  
 Quietly dragged away,
 by a member of a crisis team,
 to be loaded with medications
 there goes the development of my skills,
 my synapses will be 
 blotted dulled scrambled
 no longer freely firing. 
  
 My talents all but drained from me,
 isn’t it such irony
 that they catch you while you’re endlessly flying?
  
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