Weather Patterns

Today

I'm feeling like snow

But I am not the snow, I refuse to be

So cold, harsh & unforgiving

Biting & uncontrollable

Why can't I just feel like a breeze in spring?

Cool & gentle

playing wind chimes & scattering leaves all day

brushing the hair off of weary foreheads

No, I suppose I have to be realistic

Instead I am a hot summer morning

irritable at the start & completely impossible to bear

on the verge of rain but never quite making it there.

Better left unsaid

Today it occured to me that the belly button is the bodies plug
I looked down upon mine & put a corkscrew through it

Opening my body & letting it breathe

I go on to show you, trying to be proud

Ruining the moment with some pithy dialogue

Feigning social conciousness
Staring at you, doe eyed

Baring out my guts

Tormenting myself on whether or not you know I'm trying to impress you

Once in a blue moon

I'm trying to keep the lemon behind my teeth

&

let more honey through

Hoping you'll take it bittersweet

with your tea tomorrow
(you're full of surprises)

Something I learned today

In the event of a car accident

it is better to be hit head on.

Because if you are struck on the side

(The way your heart is strung up inside you)

makes it dangerous for it to be jarred horizontally.

A heart is really just dangling there by veins & arteries

With enough force it can pop off, like ripe fruit from its branches

Then its curtains.

Irreparable Damage

Those narrow beds are being neglected
We are desperately seeking rest
Fever dreams are leaving me with dark circles
While you are waking in pain
I'm posted up to where I'm accustom
&
So have you
We doze off to the sounds of the television
Swallowed by the pillowy couches arch
The company of your grinding teeth
is so very comforting
So I hit snooze