“We keep meeting like this”
she says to me
as I collapse into her belly.
Earth envelopes me whole
as I lay my back against her
staring into the dark grey mass
(mess)
forming above
(inside).

“You’re not broken
for roaring like thunder
and striking like lightening”

I see her lesson coming closer.

“When pressure builds
and energies rise,
Do you see me hide?

Feel everything.
Feel it so loudly you erupt like thunder.
Shake so enormously the earth moves.
Crack through silence and light up like fire.
Pour like rain and flood the land.

Storm like a summer evening
Storm up the prairie skies
Storm like there’s no tomorrow
Storm like it’s the last day of your life.

Embrace your storm
cause,
there’s a brighter sky on the other side.”

– Written August 3, 2020