Darkness Drops

 

There is tension in the air

And electricity on your breath

Your cheeks grow red from the heat like

lightning before the storm

"Not now!" you scream inside your mind

Not ready to collapse

Yet you get lost in the ocean of your thoughts

As you’re delirious about what might happen next

And then the inevitable dam breaks

You feel your eyes start to glaze

like the clouds during a rainstorm

And the drops start their winding maze

All the way down your cheeks

Releasing the tightness

relinquishing your sorrows

screaming your rationality

and losing your resolve

All that's left is to let the drops

Drop down

as you reason with yourself

that gravity will always provide

a release

there is nothing left to do but

fall away

and you sink into the knowing

of not knowing and never understanding

that expels out of the world

and into the darkness.