New Reality

 I woke up thinking it was a nightmare 

Only to see that it was reality

Trying to stop and breathe

Feel the blankets around me

Hear the fan and the sounds

That only surround me

Streams of tears flooded down

Like a wild river 

My cheeks as red as sunset

The warmth I felt was sunburn

I didn’t know how to calm myself

As I had to pick up the phone

Only to hear another voice

Are you safe

As much as I said yes

I didn’t feel it

How can you tell someone

You just don’t feel it

My world on fire

Crumbling like an earthquake 

Words in my mind

Swirl like a tornado

With some crashing waves

I have to learn to breathe

Yet I don’t know how

Somehow I go to work

Eat

Sleep again

To wake up 

With my world smoldering

The earthquakes stopping

The waves slowing

The tornado still spinning

The calmness is finally coming

Only for how long

I want to be able to breathe

Touch the person that’s in front of me

I want to tell them

How much the mean

I don’t even know how

The universe is infinite

There are planets unknown

My love spreads further

Than the millions of light years we can see

With the gravity pulling us down

We can only see in front

The tornado in my head

Can’t seem to speak these very words

The smoke rising

The earth stopped shaking

The words falling to the ground

The water is calm

Only for how long