Rainy Day Madness

can't think,
can't breathe,
heart beat slows and feet are sinking into the floor.

Let me out, god, please oh please oh please

repeating the words, like a mantra, over and over, wishing them to be true.

Trapped, in a prison made of plaster and carpet.
The posters mutter angrily as the ceiling spirals.

A teddy bear does the tango with a blue bunny rabbit,
and the dominoes dive off the shelves, marching closer, closer

A baby screams and the windows whine
three little birds, sit on the wire of a fallen star,

the monster under the bed is coming to get me

A poster falls and a door is flung open,
wind and rain cascade in,
licking along the edges of my paper back novels,
tearing at their spines

The hands on the clock move faster, and faster and faster


god, please, let. me out!