i can feel the rain coming,
in my spirit
like the old man
in the rocking chair
on his front porch,
i feel it in every bone,
every trick limb and
aching joint
a sweeping sense of despair,
as my head passes through a
deluge
something similar to
a drive through car wash,
only… less convenient
a team of pressurized fire hoses
and huge, comic pom poms,
thwacking me
right in my
frontal cortex
as the weather makes its approach,
a sweeping sense of despair,
as the weather makes its
slow, arrogant approach
i know its imminent arrival,
often hours beforehand…
before the first cloud
rears its muddy black,
disapproving face
my bones crack and my hopes
sag
nothing fazes
the stupor,
a dark, somnolent plague
of inefficient sleep,
brought on by
a simple change of
barometric pressure…
a slight swing of
humidity;
a little water.
a little water can
drown
my
w
o
r
l
d
never approaching
the front page,
ranking only
section c in the newspaper
the c section
opens my skull
and dumps that precious
baby brain on the
cold, tile floor
kicking it into the corner,
near the waste can
those morons at the paper
ought to recognize
that murder is more of a
front page deal
they view it as
a little spill on the carpet,
it’s only water…
don’t cry…
i won’t cry.
but i will sleep;
i am drugged
and stuffed into a canvas bag
by this natural sedative;
carted off to the ocean
of inactivity
and dumped in,
left for dead
with a note,
pinned to my scalp:
“you will submit to my dominance.
you will curl up
in a soggy, little ball
and wait
for me to pass”
i have survived, seemingly
intolerable fires of the spirit,
unquenchable flames of the heart
earth scorching plumes of fire,
setting daily life alight
i’ve dealt with dozens of
major catastrophes,
not to mention hundreds of
tiny conflagrations,
the little fires that need putting out
only to be doused
and completely
extinguished
by a little water
Copyright 2020
Magus
(Kevin Trent Boswell)
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Kevin Trent Boswell 
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