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