Somewhere

Somewhere
The swing set creeks
A ghost or a breeze?
Blind bats whisper up above 

And the woods
Breathe with life
Watch passersby
Surrender their worries to its love

Hurricane 
Floods the streets
The world bleeds
Life seeps into the gutters

Where children swim
Catch butterflies
Chase fireflies
‘Till morning cracks the shutters

To a world 
Where bandaids fail
Where pain prevails 
We search and we search for that place 

We used to know
Of snow days
Of paper planes
When life was not a race

But a hot bath
Where bubbles licked
Our fingertips 
And vanished without a trace 

Somewhere 
It all must lie
When neurons die
When our last breath escapes