Madalyn’s poem for workshop

Madalyn Watts

English 2267

The Great Escape

How am I meant to cope

With the feelings that are all consuming?

Maybe talk to someone, expel my thoughts

And hopefully I can find some peace.

I’ll just leave it to the artists,

Tom Petty, Barry Manilow, and The Eagles;

Countless other groups and individuals to aid

In my suffering and inability to feel.

What better way to cope with feelings,

Than to find a song that captures,

What you truly feel in your heart?

I can't think of a finer method.

You’ll feel emotions you didn’t even think

One could have.  A sense of relation

Between you and the lyrics.  A corner

Of your mind now free to experience.