Normal
Hello world, let me tell you my story
Wait no, I take that back—or maybe it can stay.
Hello world, let me tell you my story
Normal.
A horrendous word on the spectrum of awesomeness
The Rents divorced and remarried normal
The room of my own and car at 16 normal
Looking for a job as soon as I could work normal
And all the boring normal things in between
Second oldest of 5 normal
High school straight to college normal
Church on Sunday and lunch after normal
Normal. Just normal.
Potential.
Now there’s a word.
Give me emotions and watch the words spill
Death in the family? I’d kill the page before me.
Heart ache from a hard break up
And the blank page wouldn’t stand a chance
No rest at home and I’m suddenly honed in on the skill of writing
Deciding words never was so easy.
Believe me when I say I’m thankful for normality.
But the Poet inside of me is screaming, dreaming for an earthquake
To wake my soul and get me rolling and writing
Thinking and typing and never looking back for misspelled words
Hello world, let me tell you my story.
Normal words. Normal life. Normally mine.
The poet is deprived of food for thought
As I go through the motions like the waves in the oceans
Through hurricanes or sunny days
Regardless, we’re just normal.