RDP Wednesday: TOGETHER
Painting By Remedios Varo
People who are
together
don’t have to walk into dark rooms alone.
People who are
together
don’t have to wipe their runny noses
on their sleeves when they cry
because there is somebody there
to hand them a box of tissues
and say
‘ there, there, don’t cry we can face this together’
People who are
together
don’t have to speak in complete sentences
or do the the dishes if they don’t feel like it
they smile at the same time, spit nails at the same time
like a dance, on cue
because they are together.
I come in parts
some of them are missing
some them don’t fit together right
I don’t even think some of those parts are mine
but I have a shadow inside of me that isn’t in parts
and sometimes I think it’s more real then I am
because it has it together
lucky dark shadow
it has it all together I wonder if it wants to take my place?
Probably not.