The clouds grew heavy Their bellies swollen with rain water They stared at me as I glared back, My gaze split the sky like a knife It poured for days.
* I was a mess, I was soaked, I was a sponge.*
I tried to ring out all the excess, All it did was leave me drowning in a puddle of the parts of myself I no longer needed, My air tanks ran dry My body felt heavy I was sinking for years. It was hard for me to watch the ones I loved lowered 6 feet beneath the soil, It was even harder to look in the mirror and see a breathing corpse stare back, My insides were withered like the winter, All I craved was the heat, The south was a distant memory, Fluttered away so many years ago on a night with the full of the moon and the big of the sky The sweet song of the willow in the most humble of tunes, Oh how I have grown now. Look how these bones have changed.