Drip drop drown

Oh, the rain pitter patters to the beat of my heart

I fear the pattern drumming as the drip drops start

the devils got me in a wet grip leaking love from my parts

this storm is welling up

   

I try to quell it with my quill but I’m splashing around

the gutters filling to the point I think I’m gonna drown

floating up I feel my feet leaving the ground

I get the giving up

    

Out of control in this hole, I impart

the grief of gallon buckets filling till they’re falling apart

a soul can only tread the floods

with makeshift boats on the blood

until it all dries up and you’re stuck in the mud

     

The clouds gather and I crouch like a battered wife

It’s still shallow sheets of sprinkles but it’s taking my life

this condensation’s condescension cuts like a knife

it just a bloody mess

 

My lips touch the ceiling siphoning air too thin 

I’d call for help, but I’ve already given in

If this downpour has a drain, it’s damned in sin

time to acquiesce 

   

Pull the plug let it swirl

sewage slurping circle to hell

The first beat,

when I first loved,

it was easy to tell

I was marked in red

and I already fell

That sinister sump pump

Thump thumping

Sucking the swell

Of leaking hearts and skies

Far too late to be wise

It’s been 40 days and nights of being baptized

Whirlpools and undertows have their prize

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