The Warning

There has been a warning

That I have ignored

Lost track of all the times I’ve watched everything

unfold

A million times I must have thought it’s not my problem

Flags on the sidelines wave in distress

Won’t let me forget I’m overwhelmed by forgiveness

Weighing. Numbing. Sinking. Burning.

Why did you even bother? Why did you even try?

Neglect fact until it becomes fiction

I can’t feel, couldn’t feel it even when the rain began

to fall

I am lost in another sea of thought

Where the water burns my flesh

Weighing. Numbing. Sinking. Burning.