Steady rains come down today
It will make everything grow
They say
Inside I'm feeling shrunken and with thirst
Who is they anyway?
I want to get outside
Passed the school-girls playing footy
I wish I was knocking it around
In a driving rain somewhere
I don't leave because I'm afraid of the world
Afraid to see me this way
I'm no longer a cog
I'm a plant
I watch and I wait
For what?
How can we ever know?
I take in just enough. I give out just as much.
When people I live with come back into our space
They are met with a hot meal
This much I can do
When I View myself
I'm not sure if I've changed more in the fact that I'm like a child inside now
or that I'm starting to look like an older man
or both
I feel different but not quiet enough
Like dough not fully baked
Perhaps I've been in the oven too long though
I feel scared and scarred in a way I never thought possible even in dreams
And then I think of the tree in Brooklyn and how it stands
but stands alone
I know all of this is nothing
All of it esoteric and dramatic because
I breath air and eat,
Bask in the glow of the sun
And pollinate sometimes
Steady rains come down today
It will make everything grow they say