Bittersweet Taste Buds Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Signals blowing minds,
coded from inside my brain and let out in music,
rhythmically entertaining.

Systematically overwhelming interior beats with
tones set in trance-like sounds.

Carefully generating every note,
balancing an energetic period of insistent,
closely-knit aura of knowledge.

Bouncing off of walls within and landing in
picturesque screens of memories,
setting off interior sadness as each one is
touched by familial loss.

Every emotion fills me with bittersweet taste buds,
causing tears to spill and cover me with intense grief.