LillieDietzel

I find it difficult to get rid of shirts that I wore when I was thirteen.

Since I know how much I used to love them.

I sense she would feel betrayed if she saw it 

Time seems to move slower when it rains 

Cars hesitate before they turn 

Bird wings lag as raindrops batter their feathers 

The world seems small and heavy 

Every year the lines in her face deepen 

Her lips turn slightly thinner

And her hands somehow grow softer

Yet her laugh remains the same

Her smile still as wide

My first car has absorbed the beauty of your soul

The wholeness of your heart

Your voice rushes through the air vents and echoes through the quiet space

It blows the flyaways of my hair

I want to collapse into his arms and let his warm embrace surround my cold fragile body. 

I want his kind and reassuring words to stick like bandages to the broken parts of my brain.  

I am a singular person 

One soul 

Who experiences emotions

And new feelings 

All the time

Sometimes I forget that I am human