menopause
hormones moaning through your veins
flashing scenes of feverish misunderstanding
in your brain gunking up the works
making you the loneliest most pitiful person
that ever walked the face of the earth
a breath of stagnant air scratching along
your rage raw throat with spasms of
projectile bile fighting to exit a down
blocked passage that hides jagged tears
screams sobs pain open wounds emptiness
nothing a void soul devoid eyes on the back
of your head fists shoved in ears to stop
the sound of silence howls like whirlwind
spiders crawling on the underside of your skin
curled into a dark corner to be no more
Yikes. That sounds just miserable.
ReplyDeleteyikes....dang...kinda glad guys dont go to go through that...we just have midlife crisis and buy motorcycles and get tattoos...you can keep the spiders...
ReplyDeleteMotorcycles are way more fun.
DeleteOh wow! This is fantastic =) My mom actually loves menopause because her periods were so bad that she would need blood transfusions and was so anemic she couldn't move, she actually had a hysterectomy because nothing would stop them. I am on birth control and it works to stop mine, I have problems as well
ReplyDelete"breath of stagnant air scratching along
your rage raw throat" loved it! Fabulous haiku and poem!
I was ok while on the pill. Once off, my hormones began have a field day with my emotions.
DeleteI can relate to this 'premenstrual' rage - menopause, for me, was a welcome peaceful breeze!
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]