More Poems!!

I was just looking back at my posts, and I can see that by far the thing that you love most about this blog is the poems. So here are some more for you, and I hope you like these ones just as much as the old ones. So far, I've got just five, but I'll try to write more, if you like these ones.

1. Drowning

Thoughts
there are too many
Why can't I stop thinking?
Brain rushing,
bustling like the subway
Too much noise
Noise that's not really there
I just want to think straight!
Running
No wait,
thinking of running
I get myself up to my room
Can't stop the subways
Plug in my iPod
No wait,
imagining plugging it in
I shove the music into my ears
Turn up the sound
I might not be able to stop the noise
but I can always drown it out
with something louder.


2. Teenage Stupidity

Spending time with a friend
at the carnival.
I love
the carnival.
We get on a ride
My friend's scared
but I get her to calm down
as the ride starts.
Spinning
round and round,
going upside down,
somehow this isn't as bad
as she thought
it would be.
She starts to laugh,
and I blink,
and somehow that very moment
is permanently burned into my brain.
Just two freinds having fun
grinning their faces off
as they get spun faster and faster
into giggly blurs
of teenage stupidity.


 3. Forcing Creation

A blank page
A world of possibilities
Both everything
And nothing
How can you turn nothing
into something amazing?
Sometimes
it comes naturally
Sometimes,
I wonder at my abilities,
unable to comprehend how I
accomplished such a feat.
Artists
both a blessing
and a curse
You can't force creation
But sometimes they do it anyway
I wonder what would happen
if you were forced to eat
it's kind of the same thing
You can't eat if you're not hungry
You can't draw if you don't want to.


4. Even

I lie on the floor,
melting
into nothing.
At least,
that's what I want to happen.
But every time I open my eyes
I'm still here
sweating through my shirt
I hate the heat.
The heat hates me.
Air conditioning
such a luxury that I put up with
going to the store with my dad
just to feel and breathe the cool air.
I remember winter,
which seems so far away...
Cold, brisk air,
rolling through snow.
I can't see why anyone else would hate winter
But then again
They can't see why I hate summer.
So, I guess
we're even.


 5. Loose Wire

Today
I feel weird.
It's not really a physical thing,
I just can't think right.
Mumbling, mumbling,
people asking what's wrong.
My mind's full of static
what happened to the usual stations?
Why can't I talk right?
I'm so tired...
I sit down and fall asleep
right away.
I wake up three hours later,
feeling like I've lost ten years,
and suddenly I can think again,
the static gone,
able to speak something other than
incoherent mumbles.
Huh.
Guess there was a wire loose.