ROMANCE Poetry Reading: My Storm in a Bottle, by Kewayne Wadley
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1m 35s
Performed by Val Cole
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POEM:
My Storm in a Bottle
She rises over my house,
like the sun, or the moon.
The stars have tried to tell her,
but she won’t listen.
Just as she rises,
She calls my name like thunder
rolling slow
through every inch of my house.
Even if I am sleep,
I wake up and say
“Baby I love you.”
But that won’t be love
not without her peeking through
my window,
Before she says it back.
I see her eyes looking left, then right.
She don’t mean no harm
the way she pops up out the blue.
Sometimes saying it outright
only makes things worse.
I tell her “lord, ain’t no other woman here.”
Sometimes she grins and smiles.
She rises over my house.
Her smile can make the night
turn to day.
But before she nestles her head
deep in my chest,
she raises it one last time
to see if anything is out of place.
This woman you made, lord.
Half honey, half storm in a bottle.
Roofers don't come out no more
I love her just the same.
My storm in a bottle.
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