i ran into lightning storms

i ran into lightning storms

dry brown earth speckled by raindrops

driven down like

shotgun pellets kicking up micro dust devils

carried away like little secrets disappearing

black sky with a crown of boiling white 10000 feet high

looks like a monster god with no eyes

spitting flashes of jagged blue white plasma

electromagnetic curses

amongst constant volcanic rumblings

the air shakes like uncontrollable fear

the bombs booms cacophonic sonic sledgehammers

trying to knock me down

the wind licked the rain from face and arms

i wasn't to afraid i was alive i yelled at the sky

challenges

i even as a boy knew

it was me against the world

even as it violence kissed and fed me

years later i still loves storms

i’m still not scared of them

i wait for them to take me home

where i am a storm