Emerging Courageous Online Magazine - Poetry
The Tornado - "A Manic Episode"
by Marilyn Dixon Pfanstiel
I am caught up in a tornado...
Like a centrifuge cycling around and around
Upward and upward circling picking up debris...
faster and faster.
But I'm not in the empty center of the tornado but
In the midst of the debris around the edge.
The debris is pummeling me from every direction...
Nothing I do seems to stop the constant barrage.
The debris makes it even harder to focus and concentrate...
There is too much confusion..
The noise is overwhelming...
Sounds coming from every direction...
Thoughts going fifty million miles and hour...
I can't stop...
I want to stop but can't.
I can't get away...
The Pain is Unbearable.
I want to scream to make it stop.
Am I going crazy?
Sept. 10, 2003 after "A Manic Episode"
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