forecast

I am a mess right now
forty degrees of reality
are bearing down on me
and the rain is coming

I hope my mental flu
is only seasonal
and will wash away
with Spring flooding

and take all the parts of me
that hold on to infection
promises imposed
and false hopes too

sometimes, things just
aren't what we expected
and no amount of stitching
is strong enough

to hold it all together
when the ice
is getting so thin
with 40 degrees and the rain

and you are slipping away...