Scarlet XLVI

Don’t worry,

no one knows your name,

and no one ever will.

By now,

I’ve become an expert in pretending there’s no one.

But, they know,

they know there’s something I’m hiding.

Even when they think it’s something nefarious,

I let them think it.

The truth,

is that it’s just you sitting back there,

dancing with the wind and rain.

It’ll always be you back there,

but I’ve gotten a little too good

at pretending you don’t exist.

I just wish this storm would run out of rain,

before I drown.