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AShieigh M· Smi.th

Attraction

I am the storm.
for years the clouds built around me
obscuring my sight, hiding my chaos
in a fog. heavier and heavier I became
before I let the rain fall
a light, misting drizzle. gentle and deceitful
I feigned my peace to appease.

but inside the electricity stirred, jumping from
droplet to droplet, moment to moment .
it hid behind morning mist. building, burnlllg,

channeled, until I became
the lightning itself, unsettled and wild
the violence, the fear, the pain.
the rain lost its charm, its calm
and the storm became me.

the electricity escalated

and my clouds broke
and I found the earth. it was you.

you grounded me, broke my fall,

you suffered all of my faults and my pain f f lifetime

and endured the shock until all tthhaet Iawt sasdlreopt s00fasummer rain
of ever-mounting tempests was

and a rolling thunder that could be felt

in every corner of my world.