Intensity

Intensity

Sense of urgency like a potty emergency

Hot flashes as hormones bemoan, intense as royal flushes

Surging elation, heady as rampant inflation

Overwhelming feelings, invisible ocean waves sending you reeling

Emotions driving relentlessly to leave you trying

To conquer life’s unknown ends, listening to your sighing

So thoughts become silent crying to feel nothing

Then rises the shimmering mirage of happiness

For it’s out of reach and tears at your nerves bestowing sadness

Nobody to hear, none to see

You’re invisible to all; you’re below life’s horizon at sea

Intensity of being in the cracks is a torment without relent

Fighting to be free, all you have is determination and you have to pay rent

Your laugh is driven by dry tears; the echo is the happiness of others’ jeers

Intensity is a cry from within that careens into your bedrock

Defiance in your eyes, destiny will not break your stock