About You

Outside the sunlight is radiant

Arctic airs are doing battle

Stand for seconds and freeze

Like everyone

Each individual

There are no exceptions to Nature’s

Unbridled wrath

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Why is it inside then

We do battle

With the human condition

How do our lives become entangled

In storms

That liken a tsunamis

When words misconstrued

Are brought to suggest

Attention is drawn by selfish needs

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When a gale wind slams our skin

In sub-zero weather

There is no one around to say

Oh that wasn’t meant for your precious eyes

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Yet while in-doors on a cool summer evening

If the semantics of need were to suggest otherwise

Storms brew madly

And the motion sickness

That permeates the air

Might shut down any forward motion

We ride it out

We withstand torrents

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Stand close upon our own identified firm ground

Recognize the sparkling beauty of morning sunlight.