You Will Go

when I rain down

on you

you will go

before the dark

heavy clouds

exude their

lonely tears into

the deep pools of salty 

mud, waist deep

into the night

you fly to escape

as I flower the garden

extending the life 

of the bouquets

while you run 

far, far away.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by João Cabral from Pexels

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