There's this unforseen announcement An unanticipated dissemination Of an abstract, unsolicited thought That ricochets within every single cell Of my facade And furtively causes A mass hysteria A bedlam which I am Unable to dominate. Then there's this smoke A bevy of pungent fumes That rises insidiously from The blight of all my sense and sanity And the ensuing frustration That yields nothing But a night full of relentless tossing and turning And a dawn full of panicked breaths That renders my anatomy As scarred and stricken Yet leaves it to trail Amid the gusty shores of life Anyway