Bladder Control

Spend so much time
Dancing around
Shuffling foot to foot
Feeling the feelings bladder swell
Pressure inching, ratcheting up, up

Left scanning
Searching acceptable release
Not safe to scream

The bladder’s volume escalates
Soon it’s all that can be heard
While also not making a sound

Nothing gets through the barrier
Distracted presence
Rude, shocking

Dancing in place
no I don’t have to pee
Need to escape
Need to say the things that
Can’t be said

Swallow
Swallow
Run to the car
Cry.