• All this noise inside my head,
    How can you not hear it?
    Bombarding me with ideas,
    And a brouhaha of thoughts.

    A creature clawing at my soul,
    Fighting to be released.
    It burrows deep into my mind,
    And I can feel its agony.

    It rips open my heart,
    And lets the yearnings flow out.
    All the pain, all the joy,
    Are what the creature feeds on.

    It rifles through my brain,
    Uneathing feelings that I was not aware of.
    It searches until it finds the feelings,
    The memories that bring tears to my eyes.

    Tearing at the very core of my being,
    It screams and thrashes.
    All the emotions I have kept hidden,
    Suddenly come back and overwhelm me.

    So to appease this creature,
    I pick up a pen and an old notebook.
    I scribble the words and the feelings,
    Letting all the pain out.

    The creature content,
    The maddening urge to write gone,
    I read over my work,
    And am finally at peace inside my mind.