Head Down Behavior

I sit alone in the room

in my wheelchair thinking.

Head slumped,

chin resting on chest.


except for my body,

it must look like I am absent.

No sign of movement;

probably looks like I’m not even breathing.

No outward  sign of involvement .

But there’s plenty going on inside this head.

Bolts of lightning in this brain,

Claps of thunder, synapses firing;

Neurons excited electrically and chemically

Are sending  signals, billions of them