Storm’s Beginning

I had forgotten how easily you can make me cry.

Because I am afraid someday

you will make me say good-bye.

Your moods that shift and change awry.

I know you are broken

but so am I

and yet I care about you

so before you sigh.

Let me tell you my love

how I care so deep

that in time I hope you emerge

from this hazy sleep

that depression has caused

you to sink under.

The man I know lies deep within

his soul as beautiful as lightening and thunder.

The clouds will be chased away

and someday

the rainbow will fill your eyes.

The storms will never be far away

but listening to them

can be helpful

so I say,

pass this time alone if you must

but please remember

I will come to you,

with no fuss.

One Mistake

Guilt still lingers.

Trying to make up for it.

Apology hopefully accepted.

Yet, did I really make a mistake?

Or is my guilt really true?

I know I said something that angered them.

But isn’t that their problem?

Maybe decades of being guilted

are still making their presence felt.

Which means, I’ll apologize

but it is up to them to realize

I am no longer a pawn.

Leech

I want to contribute.

I want to be functional.

I want to not be seen as a disappointment.

Yet, I am unable to work.

I need time to heal.

I need to care for others before myself.

And so,

I am a leech on society.

Letting them prop me up

until one day

I can hopefully be standing free.

As one of them among the crowds again.

I did not ask for it

Whether it is big/small favour

Or a tragedy.

A winfall

or some other surprise

I did not ask for this to happen.

Yet it did.

So what do I do now?

Be grateful for what I was given or

wail about what was lost.

Then continue within this weird journey

given to me called life.

Saving me

Eternally grateful.

For this moment.

Shocked and scared.

Excited by the danger.

Impure thoughts replaced.

Only to find arousal still edging in.

Watch him walk towards me.

Smile and nod

Before he passes by

And gone forever.