The Roller Coaster…
My body is riding
Waking with bile in my mouth
waves of nausea rising from
my stomach to my throat
the upward angle of a roller coaster
waiting in anxious anticipation
of
the
drop
The drop that never comes
but it is there, waiting
in the wings for me
the drop of the roller coaster
that i don’t remember riding
there is no reason for it
i have eaten nothing wrong
i have eaten nothing rank
perhaps it is what waits
putrid inside my body
that makes these
spontaneous
episodes
betide
Whatever is left rancid
inside my body, not yet healed
I let it slink away behind the wings
get my self back to center stage
play my Baby Boy playlist
in the car, bop to the beat
shimmy my shoulders
thrust my hips
innocently
Bring myself to the present.
Stop waiting for the next ride uphill.
©JkMansi Juhi Kalra 2018. All rights reserved.
Thanks to Stephen M. Tomic & Mike Sturm at The Junction
