Scatterbrained Poet

Thoughts got uprooted

Wind blew them into the air

Breeze scattered it like confetti 

Clouds captured them to build

Staircase from earth to heaven

Unable to hold it any longer 

Rains poured releasing words 

I'd lost and found. 

Tried piecing them together with

Pen and paper, tried over and over

To make some sense out of it

Tried to unscramble the words 

That stuck in the brain 

Failed to coalesce into whole again

Lacked fluidity, lacked the flow

Poet's essence