Normal

“I just wanted to be normal” She said As she scrapped the words into her paper Until it bled Deep blue ink Onto her fingers Leaving little blue trails through the forest of her written word She wrote it over And over again Until the words floated off the page And became the air she breathed The food she ate The thoughts she dreamed Trying to make the words come true Like a wish upon a star She wrote a desire upon a paper Waiting for folklore to break the cycle of the imaginary And step through the door of her reality “I’m tired” She whispered to the rain As it ran down her window pane In an attempt to escape the lighting and the thunder She just wanted to know normalcy No throbbing or aching No sobbing or saying “We don’t know what’s wrong” Though her insides are having a tug a war And she was losing She just wanted to run Down the street Down the beach Down a hill Without a snapping or cracking A breaking of her anatomy So instead she dreams And she writes Lines Paragraphs And pages With the same wish and the same dream Where pain is distant And she is well and free But just as the dream comes flittering And glistening And promising an escape Her organs throw punches And she goes back to writing…