Rain & Blood

Thunder speaks our names as the skies

Give plants their water

You used to say my name with your eyes, lashes as lips

And they gave me a pure comfort of dizzy stomachs

Your phrases are bleeding into the ground now,

As the essence of our love chases after

Strings of sounds you refuse to grace with your thought

I lay my chest to the ground, hoping to absorb

Trace amounts of comfort, just a last taste I bought

With years of devotion

You cherished the presence of a human,

Not me in particular, not my soul

Like you told me so, so much

I’m digging my grave to find my desire, essence

In the blood soaked soil of this world you left

With a rock for a stomach now, the dirt begins to

Absorb me

All hearts have pain, but jailing them in rib cages

Will never impart catharsis

We must shed the skin, the cages to change

To undergo metamorphosis

You are soaked into my skin and I’m beginning to shed

Your smell from the sheets, my mossy bed

Your voice called me like the hum of hummingbirds wings

But now I need to sleep,

I need to watch the rain and hear the thunder

and hear of new names, new loves, new lives

Because this mentality is what truly deprives,

It wasn't you