Cough If You Can Hear Me
Location
Reverence-
demonstrated through my parent's beliefs
and their ropes on my limbs--
that you would dive in foreign ocean's
despite the ropes on your mind
Gravity-
the only thing that kept me firmly on Earth
and tied me to the living, the famous, and the deceased-
But there was no gravity in my mind
I have a cold-
And in the winter months
I am woken by the sound
of Earth's screams
loud, pounding in my head through my ears
I try to find refuge in people
but their ignorance clogs my throat
and stretches down my lungs,
and bursts in the pit of my stomach
I scream and shout
but all that's heard-
is a cough