A Brief Visitation (Hey, You Got Me)
I shivered like a ghost Had momentarily scarily In me had found a host Suddenly there's melancholy So in clinging clammy clothes Up I rose Drawing breath and tilting skywards From down deep in my bones sighs and groans But not my own Hey, you got me Now please let me go Hey, you got me Sorrow and woe All engulfing That is the worst I insist you assist in lifting this curse Lifting this curse I quivered like a wind-blown stem Repeatedly rippling through me Like being covered in a spider web Of gossamer from who knows where The strangest little strings tingling Catching my breath to speak [but not my own words] Something alien is laying on a possession of me Hey, you got me Oh won't you let go Hey, you got me Full of sorrow of woe Won't you vanish And banish the curse I insist that you lift Lift off this curse Lift off this curse Hey, you got me Hey, you got me Hey, you got me Hey, you got me