It certainly feels strange to put a comment box under a poem as I'm sure it must be strange to try and think of a relative reply. With that in mind, I would like to welcome you all to do me a solid and just leave me a smiley or something so I know you've been here. Thanks in advance. Yours truly, DJ Funktual

ROLLERCOASTER!!!!!!

Cricketty jaws and crunchy feet

lurching down into rusty metal boxes

to crooked bars for safety, clutching.

Thrillseeking freaks we smile horrified

and jerk forward suddenly aware

of the swift commitment to fear undertaken here.

An unseen hook drags us slowly uphill.

Facing cloudy futures we look down

as our past shrinks away, no help at all.

It is coming.........not yet but soon, though...

...all we've agreed upon....it's almost..NOW!

Squint sqeezing muscle locks and d r o p.

Like a dime - reason gone.....sublime...lightness.

There, dumbstruck on reality

our brains desperate to capture pure joy,

descent is cruel in quickness,

over long before comprehension and then.

Spinout into jagged cobwebs awhile,

expecting every nail in this contraption

of imagination we're riding to hold,

we plung into disappointment overkill.

Perhaps haunted by the predictability of survival

we lumber on to the next quick fix.