Slow motion

Sonia M. Rosa-Vélez

A spatial frantic haste,
crucial, fast, necessary,
It’s running reckless rhythms
in my life
like wild fires.
All that poisoned adrenaline
that keeps me in the fast track,
demented rush and dizziness
keeping me near collapse.
Give me a dose of slow motion!
The lunacy will stop. . .
Give me a dose of slow motion!
With a rhythm ultra-slow.
Give me a dose of slow motion!
Just to make a phone call.
Give me a dose of slow motion!
Send firemen, paramedics, to stop
the outrageous fury
before my body explodes.