heat

28.

you were heat

a thick, woolen jacket

clinging to my skin

on a burning summer's day,

sweat beads ran along my skin

and freely fell.

unlike me -

enclosed in this prison

you were keeping me in.

your grip so tight,

I was almost suffocating.

my efforts so weak

to pull you off me,

to rip you from your hold on me.

you stayed.

the sun continued blazing

and I was the world's biggest idiot

with a layered coat.

you made me look stupid

and no matter how hard I tried

you didn't leave

until rain came.

when the clouds gathered

for a cry in the sky,

you were gone.

and I shivered.

it was cold,

and the thought of your return

when the bad weather was gone

sent chills racing through my system

worse than any low temperature

would cause.

because that's how you worked-

suffocating my good days,

until rain came pouring out of them

leaving me alone and broken

to dwell on the damage you did

on the bad days.

you were heat.

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