Edge of Lightning
It’s mid summer now The air has changed into a thick blanket Warm Humid Wrapping me like a small child in desperate need of reassurance I feel coddled by the song of cicadas and the distance bark of dogs The sounds of the train rumbling in the distance that beats the tracks like my heart in my chest It brings along with it the dull ache in my chest Echoes not of just one But many come and gone I see you in the distant flashes of the heat lightning that strikes on the horizon Silent Bold And so captivating I want to reach out and grab hold of it Intertwining my fingers with the tendrils of clouds I can barely make out each time the light flashes out Deeply desiring to feel the same strike in my own heart again I feel it starting to itch again That deep sense of longing Of needing Something to make my still heart beat Something to make my sluggish mind race I miss the comfort The deep feeling of being loved for more than the sum of parts that I am so quickly thrown toget...