Devious Bloggery

Normalcy

This
is just
my way of making you feel all right.

I can't help it.
My blood.
My brain.
These hands.
Words. Lips.

My way of making you feel all right.\

As a child, I was enraptured by rainy nights.
I would stand silently on wet sand,
slowly

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g

.

It’s OK to sometimes wish it didn't exist.
It’s OK to sometimes wish to never move again.
It’s OK to sometimes be alone.

I always hated names that linger like hate in humid air.

I don’t want you anywhere but here tonight.
Take my hand.
Walk into the forest with me.

#naked in the rain #poem #poetry #writing