Poem #12: Somedays

 Somedays, I hide from my pain.
 Curling my body into the tiniest shape imaginable, and humming a song about love
 to keep the delicate threads holding me together from collapse.
 And somedays I run from my pain,
 breathless from the storm of stressful and the piles of work I'm racing to get through.
 But other days I need to feel my pain,
 like an ocean wave slamming against my bones, pure cold water breaking on my skin.
 I need to crash through the wall of my numbness, burn through the dullness of my aching heart,
 and let my tears fall like rain into the ocean.