June
Its been awhile since I’ve written anything.
You see, usually I begin with a metaphorical gesture,
Or a fragment too dramatic to be anything but the start of a stanza.
But today I write from my heart.
February I would have written from a withering organ, too rotted and infused with hatred
To see any color brighter than those
In shadows.
March would have dragged in the dreary whispers of emotional storm clouds
Brewing, overcast
But not breaking.
April showers broke overhead
And thunderstorms rattled about my body.
Sunshine only broke through when I met you,
Shedding bare light on the deepest of seeds
Lying dormant in frozen soil.
May might have only left us with a period of paused breath,
Jealousy,
And nerve.
Anything was possible. Anyone could be where you should have been.
Sunlight streamed through clouds dark enough to portray the evening sky
At three pm.
It was June that shattered the dull grey surface;
It was June that caused the tidal waves of tears
Flooding the potholes with murky thoughts
And desperation hung like fog in the humidity.
But, at the end of every thunderstorm,
Beams of light kiss the earth’s saturated grass
And we smile.
You are my beam of light,
You are the end of my thunderstorm.
June would have been a hurricane
Without you.