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i called you hurricane,
and you called me weather girl;
i laughed in your face and you
tore down buildings.
i called you soft and you erupted
into a category five not even i saw coming.
i saw you,
a tornado hardly spinning with its feet barely off the ground,
spluttering around in search of your perfect storm.
i saw you,
feet planted in the ground like a safety net,
like one wrong move would send you hurtling towards the sky.
built from the start like a chain reaction,
i watched you sweep backwards through towns with populations i could count on two hands,
watched you try to build yourself back up in all the destruction.
i watched you, like i knew it was coming.
after all, aren’t i the best at predicting storms?
Copyright © Michele Sherman | Year Posted 2019
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