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A Gifted Child's Cosmos

December 19, 2016
By AkashaSeeker SILVER, Houston, Texas
AkashaSeeker SILVER, Houston, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."-WONDER


Gifted...

It is the sweet taste of colors and shapes
splashing on your tongue.
It is the rough touch of reality
scraping,
scratching,
clawing
relentlessly at the idealistic dimensions
wavering and flowing within your mind.
It is the sour stench of
wind, fire, water, and Earth
rotting and rusting beneath the
plight and destruction of human ignorance.
It is the sight of blinding waves
of pulsing photons bombarding into the pupils,
paralyzing your Occipital lobe
into a glitching seizure.
It is the deafening clamor of
bangs bells rings rumbles clings clanks voices cars freeways people...
and everything!
It is the feeling of overwhelming joy and marvel:
ideas buzzing, beeping, and bustling
in a piercing and perpetual swarm within your head.
It is the breathtaking exhilaration
of lightning firing inside your mind,
blood-
streaming with sparking neurons.
Electricity discharging at
anti-matters of reality;
martial atoms vibrating,
detonating defenses
of your inner realm of freedom-
electrifying every
breath
stolen from the circuits on the wind
into the eternal pamphlet of human ingenuity
like Time is stolen into
reality
imprisoned by
Time
in everything,
though your mind
is freely  timelessly  eccentric.
It is as if it were
the quantum foam in which
packets of energy
randomly erupt
into an expanding, accelerating, dense cosmos
that is your mind's
spacetime.
Anticipation lurking inside some
Primeval atom
tussling with explosive potential of
energies burning with
innovation and passion.
Radical theories,
revolutionary ideas,
groundbreaking discoveries
crashing within your cosmos.

 

Though you are always cautious...

 

because at any moment,
the dark matter
pushing and guiding your cosmos
becomes a teeny-weeny bit too
intoxicated from feeding off of
the energy swimming through you.
Your energy could build
into a fire-breathing, roaring
black hole
that sets an inferno
within your cosmos until the
LIGHT NOISE NUMBERS PATTERNS COLORS WORDS SHAPES IDEAS
are all BLARING, BLASTING, and BOOMING
in a thunderous harmony
until finally all of the atoms
within your brain
are sucked away...
And all of the energy and power
are compressed into an atomic bomb
that ignites an ear-splitting explosion
deep within you
until your extraordinarily
picturesque simulation
of a googolplex of pixels
that constitute the
major motion picture
that is
your imagination
slowly drains
into your veins
and gradually seeps
through your skin
until your entire being
is drowning in
smoke and steam
from the sweat
coalescing onto your spirit
as the remnants
of yet another cycle,
remaining until
your
new
cosmos
is born.
It inherits
every single
string within
every single
atom of the
previous cosmos,
and the cycle continues
until there is not one atom of oxygen left in your body
because apparently,
the powerful intensity
and energy
of a gifted child
is too
brilliant and
blindingly bright
to contently be contained...

 

Not even
for just one infinity
to obey
the laws of physics
that govern the universe.

 

But what does that matter to you?

 

Your universe
has its own
set of laws.


The author's comments:

This poem is intentionally written without stanzas in an effort to emphasize the constant flow of information in the mind of a gifted child. In the beginning of the poem, the structure is orderly, though it increasingly becomes chaotic and unpredictable, which is a reflection of the chaos that goes on in the mind of a gifted child. This is shown through the punctuation, or rather the lack thereof, in the lists of words. This is to reflect the ongoing streams of thought and incoming information that a gifted child experiences constantly. There is a turning point in the poem highlighted by the first space, and the line right after that is its own stanza. In the remainder of the poem, I introduce bolded type (all caps) to highlight the extreme intensity of tons of information just bombarding a gifted child's senses to the point where it is unimaginably overwhelming. The lines also become shorter near the close of the poem to convey a calmer tone, as if the intense emotions are gradually subsiding as the gifted child's mind is seemingly dying as reflected in the poem. I also wrote this poem from the perspective of a person who would not have had any experience whatsoever of giftedness (aka 2nd person) to give them a more profound level of understanding of what it actually is like to be gifted...which is SO SO SO much more that simply advanced intelligence, brilliance, or genius; this is a common misconception about giftedness that I wish to dispel through this poem.


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