Storm haiku

Dripping leaves, black sky
Electricity crackles
Violence sublime

Beneath the skin

Muscle, nerve, artery and vein
Flay my skin, we are both the same

Beneath a microscope, tell me what you see?
Can those little tissue slices identify me?

Take a drop of blood, test it won’t you please
Certainly my blood separates me from thee

Analyze my chromosomes, test my DNA
Now the differences surely are made plain

Adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine
Arranged in a double helix, so pristine

It’s just a mix of chemicals, four nucleotides
That makes us different deep inside

Naked by the water
Not caring who sees
Lying in the tall grass
Grass stains on my knees

Dip my fingers in the cool stream
Let the tadpoles tickle my skin
The sun turns the ripples golden
Ribbons for a fairy queen

Nibbles on pink fingernails
Tiny fishes nip and pinch
Squeal in delight, draw hand away
Water splashes skin to drench

Inhale the honeysuckle perfume
Roll onto my back with languid sigh
Drunk on sunshine and summer heat
My eyes are heavy but my heart is light

I let the troubles go with the current
Sent the heartache down the stream
I drip the water, cool my glowing skin
Let it purify me, make me clean