Loss of balance feeling sick

Wondering if I’ll get over it

Room spinning, severe attack

Can’t make out where anything’s at

Loss of balance, can this be real?

It’s like living inside a Ferris wheel

that speeds up and then slows down

Leaves my system whirring around

My head, my brain, my thoughts a blur

What’s happening to me? it’s getting worse 

People think that I’ve been drinking

but the fact remains that I’m just sinking 

further and further into despair

Gone past the stage where I lost my hair

The medical people are totally stumped 

My condition isn’t a virus, flu or mumps 

They say it could be my inner ear

causing symptoms that seem like beer

Is the cause of this deadly blow

So they’ve given it the label of VERTIGO 

which covers a multitude of sins

So If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em

And get the drinks in!

The Urban Poet 2019