when

 I hope, I pray through all your days, you have someone who’ll say, “I got you”

I only post portions of unpublished poems every six days.  This isn’t the 6^th day, this isn't a portion, but I want to share the following:

 

when

poem inspired by Jack Johnson’s lyrics, “I Got You”

 

when my sad flows molten

my madness fluid

when disbelief burbles

sunshine mocks lightning

when my skin catches fire

 

when I sleep until nine

won’t wake before noon

I’m laundry on a line

I flutter in cold

when my opaque can’t breathe

 

I’m no more substantial

than my addiction

when I’m incapable

I can’t imagine

I crave my devil kiss

 

when I mock mystery

when I won’t wonder

when breath freezes my death

 

I know I’ll hear somebody say, “I got you”

 

© 24 December 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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