shoelaces

perfect storm

i hope you think of me every time it rains;
for you said you loved the rain like you loved me.
you thought i was like the rain,
delicate but intricate,
beautiful but sad.
but the rain stops falling eventually,
and evidence of droplets disappear.
just like your love did for me.

but you didn't realize i wasn't only the rain.

i am the thunder that crackles in your mind
i can make the earth shake; make your body tremble.
with every pound creeping closer, i echo as loud as i want.

i am the lightning, staking forks on the horizon.
lighting up the sky, flashing blinding light in your mind.
i can destroy anything i hit, set it in flames.

i am the torrential downpour that floods the streets
drowning you with every drop, leaving you flooded too.
i can wash away everything you ever knew, everything you were.

i am the wind, sweeping away the leftover fragments.
i can blow around the pieces, make them fly away.
whipping through the air, i control the direction of everything.

see, you can't control me.
for the thing you didn't realize;
i am not some droplets of rain.
i am a perfect storm.
and when it hits, there's no escaping a perfect storm.