A Stormy Sky

Thunder rolls across the dark sky, sending rain to tap at my window.

As I lay here in bed with your warm arms around me,

All I can hear is the rhythmic pounding of your heartbeat.

It’s almost as loud as mine,

But I sense the quick and unevenness of my own chest.

It’s not that I don’t find peace in your presence,

But that I fear the immense harmony I feel with you.

See, I’ve never held this affection for someone.

When others offered their love,

It seemed like a wave crashing onto me,

Beautiful but suffocating.

Yet, here you are whispering sweet promises of a blissful future into my ear,

One where you will never cause me harm.

And I want so badly to trust you, but that is not the world I have known.