The Voice Inside of Me

Cold

Wind

Dust

The storm was a rush

It dips

into a creek

which turns and tips into a river

Grasping on to things as though lint

Thus, the dust is vigilant-

Shakes me, but now

the weather, quite contagious

It’s chilly like ice, my hands glued to cold ground

And

cold glued to my hands

I turn up my ear because I hear

Laughter, but it’s not, instead it’s

Snow crashing down like vases

and I,

just on the ground;

never get back up

But when the wind sprints past me

It turns coldness into outrage

Because that’s that voice inside

of me, ever so enraged

It’s cold right now, winter

But as the ice glued to my hands seeps

down and melts

“It’s summer”, says the voice in my head

It’s the voice that says “get over it”

But lends a hand laid out to me

It’s the same voice inside of me

That laughs with me while watching

Gilmore Girls

The voice that tells me it’s okay

That warns me,

“stay away”

Even before something happens

It’s the voice that keeps me going

It’s the voice that I’ve been knowing

for so long

Without it, I wouldn’t be me, I’d be

someone else

in their intricacy…