Exposed

• Artist: Saduko Leyra
• Description: I walk to school without a coat when it's raining, or a slight drizzle while most people are bundled up as if it were snowing. I guess that's So Cal for you. But really it's the only time I'm noticed. People walk up to me and ask why I'm not wearing a coat, why I'm not cold. They think of me as a freak. XD that doesn't matter to me though. I'm a writer. I have to be eccentric.
• Date: 04/10/2013
• Tags: exposed poem poetry rain mist

This is my pre-dawn departure.

Ice, misting rain, pricking my face, my arms.

I feel nothing, already soaked.

I wear no coat, why should I?

The mist won't last the day

The sun will come out and play.

I can walk without hands,

Run without wings,

I can swim without a boat,

Why should I need a coat?

Thing is, now I'm not invisible.

The only time you'll see me is now,

When I'm exposed to rain I can't feel.

Otherwise I'm invisible,

Exposed is how you want me/

You need my vulnerability.