Alchemic Verse

Overflowing days of rain
Grow the puddles into lakes
Drown the ankles, rust the brakes
Run dark circles over drains

Void is filled with storms of pain
Thunder’s sobs and lightning’s shakes
Leaving echoes in their wake
Through my lips each form your name

Ride the storms in sky and brain
Live it twice to learn the strain
When it’s done the clouds remain
Mind and sun both bound in chains

Mind’s narrator paints the scene
False protection fear would seek
Scripts the words you wouldn’t speak
Writes responses in between

To the worst results careen
Scaling outcomes to their peak
Filling blanks, each choice more bleak
Holding fast to most obscene

Dress rehearse the darkest dream
Live it twice to train my scream
When it’s done choose most extreme
Variation on the theme

Overflowing tears of brine
Run their course at midnight’s strike
Puddles leak, my eyes alike
Both storms nearing their decline

Racing clouds with moon entwine
Pierced by last of lightning’s spike
Rusty eyes behold the sight
Darkness shattered by design

Let the light break cloud to shine
Live it twice to redefine
When it’s done leave storm behind
Recognize fear’s voice as mine

Last my ears hear shifts in tone
Downpour’s roar to shower’s strokes
Bathe the senses, let them soak
Slake the thirst down to the bone

Lower breeze from howl to moan
Match my sighs that carry smoke
Filling space where voice would choke
Trusting what remains unknown

Suffering is pain fear honed
Live it twice to be atoned
When it’s done find peace to own
Leave the storm to sky alone