Dip Me In a Sea With No Sharks
I’m so acclimated to this
that I don’t see how it looks from
the outside
looking in
i’m told that this is not right
this is not normal
this is not natural
this is
unhealthy
corrupt
detrimental
But it doesn’t even bother me as much as it should
I’ve grown with it
I’ve only seen these shades of color
when I heard about rainbows, I felt like part of the earth has been withheld from me
And then I got angry.
And then I saw the wrongness of it all.
I saw the abnormality of my thoughts, tainted by the faded shades of what I thought was normal.
My friends gave me their stories like spectacles for me to distinguish between what should be and what shouldn’t be;
what i’ve never known, and the only body of water I’ve ever swam in—
the collective drops of venom from the mouth of a human.
I saw how terrifying it is that a human being could open their mouth and inject you with gradual death.
It is a crescendo
piano then forte
a drop
then an ocean
- dip me in a sea with no sharks
Copyright © Brooklyn Cruz | Year Posted 2018
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