Wrung Out Jungle

Brain cells colliding

Memories swirling

A whitewater miasma of myriad thoughts

Tumbling through a jumble

Wrung out by time and stress

Strained by unpleasant incessance

Shredded by the whirling blades of average

Blended and blinded and blistered

Stirred by imagery

Happy, then horrified

Nauseated by the persistent kaleidoscopic freak show

Mindful, remembering, praying to forget

This and that

And all the others

Here, now, never, forever

A moment seized

Tattooed on the colliding cells of my brain

Life's Moments

All of the moments

of our lives

strung together

make us who we are

today.

At any given moment,

all of those previous moments

may crowd into our consciousness

and exhilarate us,

excite us,

frighten us,

sadden us,

delight us.

At any given moment.