Please Dance with Me (Poetry)
Updated: Apr 16
BOOM!
The barbed light
pierces the night.
The raindrops braille the dirt.
Like a tree that’s struck
my mind is cracked in two.
“GO AWAY!
NO!!!
PLEASE STAY!!”
Eyes shut, face crumpled,
my mind screaming so loud
I collapse to the ground,
hands covering my ears
to drown out the sound,
that no one else can hear.
On the outside I look fine.
Hair pulled into a ponytail,
face expressionless,
though my eyes are waterlogged,
tired and sore.
The light cracks again,
like a whip slicing my heart.
My body jerks back
with a painful yelp.
I fall halfway down.
I’m on my knees,
back arched.
My eyes to the sky —
The light shows me
all I wish to hide.
What I want to run from:
The emotions I cannot bear
to keep feeling,
to keep living,
to keep experiencing —
Amy, keep breathing.
It’s dark again now.
I am the storm,
so why does it hurt me?
The dark grey clouds cover my mind,
thoughts colliding like sound waves.
Boom! BOOM!
Dissipating with a violent rumble.
My thoughts are my enemy!
How can I harness this energy?
How can I take this electricity,
and re-route it into positivity?
…
I can journal.
I can write.
I can push out truly
terrible rhymes.
I can draw.
I can breathe
until the storm passes
and calm finds its way
back into my chest.