Drizzle

You were just living your life

and someone came to tell you,

“Why? Why aren’t you miserable?

You should be. You’re neither married

nor have a stable job. Your sexuality

is the end of you.”

“Why choose the difficult road

with thorns and poisonous spiders

when you can have it easy?

Why did you sail further

into the Bermuda Triangle

and get swallowed by the big sea

when you can settle down here?“

“Why do you have to be

this way? Nobody likes it

you’re not twenty three

It’s time to be an adult

and behave like one.”

I’ll say, the Bermuda Triangle

is alienating and frightening to you,

doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

doesn’t mean we can’t live in it

doesn’t mean it’s not worth fighting for.

if we could get through the tsunami

and make it out alive

why would we care about you

or anyone trying to warn us

that a drizzle is coming our way?

t.l.

It’s okay to be misunderstood. As long as you believe in yourself, there are people who will do the same.