it feels like pulling fabric out of drawers
and none of it fits
last night, you put everything in the dryer
and fell asleep while
the things you thought you knew
tumbled and knotted and turned into
an unfamiliar mess
it feels like a bumblebee landing on your shoulder
you’re supposed to stay still
and wait for it to move on
until it realizes you are not a flower
it doesn’t
it stays and buzzes in your ear until
you turn to dust or learn to scream
but then, one day
it’ll feel like waking up to
rays of sun through the window
when you haven’t slept in weeks
like forgotten pocket change
like a present on your half-birthday
like an entire april without rain
and it’ll feel like
it was always there—
you’d just forgotten
to turn the light on
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 2:03 PM UTC
it feels like pulling fabric out of drawers
and none of it fits
last night, you put everything in the dryer
and fell asleep while
the things you thought you knew
tumbled and knotted and turned into
an unfamiliar mess
it feels like a bumblebee landing on your shoulder
you’re supposed to stay still
and wait for it to move on
until it realizes you are not a flower
it doesn’t
it stays and buzzes in your ear until
you turn to dust or learn to scream
but then, one day
it’ll feel like waking up to
rays of sun through the window
when you haven’t slept in weeks
like forgotten pocket change
like a present on your half-birthday
like an entire april without rain
and it’ll feel like
it was always there—
you’d just forgotten
to turn the light on
this is a custom poem written for a giveaway winner.
