A Poem a Day 2015 (24): Like you're crazy

I wrote this poem just after midnight. Yep, I'm still up! Well, it is Friday. Writer JD Mader runs a writing day on his blog every Friday, called Unemployed Imagination - you can write whatever you like in the space of 2 minutes. JD's initial story is always cool and I nick lines out of it for my prompts. I dunno, but prompts kind of grab something for me and I try to take it somewhere. Anyway, here's what I came up with and if you want to write, here's his blog link - http://www.jdmader.com/2015/01/2-minutes-go.html

So, here's my 2-minute bit... I wrote 4 things (2 fiction, 2 poems) so I'll post the others over the weekend. Cheers.

Prompt: Everyone looks at you like you're crazy (from JD's story).

Everyone looks at you like you’re crazy

Except me

For I know

I have a handle on the thing

The breeze in the air

The circle in the stream

The wandering so endless

I know the creeping darkness

The watcher in the shadows

The mind fuck

I have a feeling you know too

These stray things

The way they shift in the light

Only to fade in the night

When he comes a-walking

Talking up the tune

Only to confound me now

Into this space

Of utter burning

I yearn

Eager to begin a story

Only you can tell me

With that crazy laugh of yours

In time with my own

For I am as damn fine crazy

As the life you’ve always known.

copyright Vickie Johnstone