Emily Winters                                                                                           

No Shelter

Shelter me (so that I never have to)

Go

Leave

Do

Be

I can’t anymore,

My tears mingle with the rain,

And your arms surround me so that I never have to

See

Hope

(be)

I want to lie in the shade (fire) of yesterday,

Until the flames catch up to us,

And burn down our house,

Our dreams(?)

Do I dream…?

I slumber through the nights and I pass through the days,

My life,

The haze.

Coated in smog as I choke on the ash of everything,

As I flounder in the remains of the bones of yesterday…

Shelter me in your head,

Keep me safe to never stray…

I might as well ask of you a cage.