Tonight's Poet Corner: You'll Be Okay
You'll Be Okay by Belinda Roddie You wrapped me up in your brand new coat, swaddled me like a baby, carried me to bed like my legs had turned to dust below the knees. I was spiraling. I thought I saw a million stars when really, it was overcast, and not even the moon peeked out from behind the endless gray. You tried singing to me - if only to calm the palpitations, if only to get me to stop crying because you knew that if I shed any more tears, I'd dry up, and my body would wilt in the February heat wave. I counted how many times I tested the lock on the door before you finally pulled me away from the knob. The slippery brass was riddled with dents, personal scars from fingers leaving prints clear enough to convict me of multiple crimes of obsession - of compulsion. And though I was grateful to you for breaking the cycle, the wheels and cogs and gears and keys and wires and coils kept spinning in my brain, and I could feel the veins tightening in my fo