Mercurial

I like to think of myself as ADD enabled. But there are times (far too many times)when this is decidedly not an advantage. I think it helps me at work because I have to flit back and forth between many different tasks at once but when I need to, I can hyperfocus. But outside of work, I have a constant struggle to stay on one thing long enough to accomplish anything.

Tonight when I was trying to think of ideas for today’s poem, I got one idea and before I could even begin to flesh it out, it was gone into the ether. Almost immediately another one came along. And another, And another. The only problem is that no one wanted to stay and see how any one of the ideas turned out.

So, my mercurial mind became the over arching thought…

 

Quick silver thoughts

Flitting from idea to idea

Squirrels for brains

Branch to branch

To branch again

Hamsters in balls

Squeaky exercise wheels

Runaway train

In a powerful storm

Lightning strikes

Hot sizzling

Gone again

In a puff of hot air

Vaporized

Even as the fried synapses

Fire in the hole

Look out below

Fast of feet

No fleet of foot

Fancy pants

Dancing in time

Wish you were mine

Winged god

Delivery boy

Helmeted ready for battle

Of wits

All is lost

In a flurry of ideas

Words dripping down

To puddle on the paper

Blender on high

Ice crushing colors

As they swirl down the drain

Around in my brain

Sparkling and shiny

Poisonous to the touch

But they aren’t much

Just all the bits and pieces

That make up me