my town has managed
to be hit with a snow storm
every winter
since you left

last fall
we were visited by a hurricane
that managed to demolish
every power source,
yet
my mind would not shut off

i can remember how loud
the wind was
and how i could scream
at the top of my lungs without
my family hearing me
but
it was usually like that anyway

this year,
i met you and you decided
to come into my life
and also decided to leave
so **** quickly,
i was watching the news the day you left and a tornado
was going strike down and destroy everything and disappear
and
it was funny because they named it after you

so i sat there, and
realized chivalry had died a truculent
death

but
now its almost winter
and the tornado didnt touch much
of my fallow land
and the rain poured down as the temperature changed
turning rain into hail
pungently piercing my fragile skin
and my anxiety raged because
i felt another storm coming in

but some boy came by
and stood over me with an umbrella and kissed my forehead

and it hit me
harder than any storm
that you find who you need when you need them

you cannot simply be a storm chaser without getting damaged by the storm