Why did you text? Why do you bother inserting yourself in my like?
Why are you so predictable? Why did it take you months?
What do you want? I know. I just wish you’d figure it out.
The rain wouldn’t be so bad with your arms around me.
This storm wouldn’t bother me if I had someone to dance in the rain, or watch the lightning with.
If it were the ocean or the middle of the desert. You would be my shelter, and I would be yours.
Even still, the roll of thunder and flash of lightning our my sanctuary.
They understand me, my emotions. It hides my tears with its own.
Does it do the same for you?
…if I did, you’d know my heart.
Everything laid open in front of you.
What’s worse, I’d know my heart.
Laid out for me to see. No more hiding,
no more lying, no more waiting, no more excuses.
I’m not ready, not strong enough. Never strong enough for myself.
Only for others. My strength is never for myself.
Odin would laugh at my prayers. He does not grant them,
I am supposed to do for myself. A pathetic excuse for a warrior I am.
I know what I want my future to hold. I just wish I had the strength to make it my own.