Emotional Commotion

Jumbled up emotions

create a commotion,

in the basket of my head.

So, as I upturn it on the bed

the contents tumble down.

I waste no time to straighten every frown,

by ironing every crease out

of every possible doubt.

I fold them up and stack them up again

in the left and right brackets of my brain.

Then, as I would run through the machinery

and come out crumpled again from the factory

I would learn how to sustain the wear and tear

by conversing face to face with my fear.