Windy. — Summary

M A D IRomantic

With skin so soft, But your dance creates flames,

But it's not elegant, You rock your own world, You don't care who's looking.

As you're surrounded by smoke, You fall to the ground being suffocated by the grey mass finding its way into your lungs. Then it's just us. Your words shake me like a hundred hurricanes.

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The poem is a portrait of someone the speaker finds both gentle and destructive. The subtitle, "Windy," and the name in the heading suggest the poem is addressed to a person called Madi, though the text itself never says more about who she is. She is described as soft-skinned, yet her "dance creates flames." She isn't graceful or polished, and she doesn't worry about being watched. She simply "rocks her own world."

Then the mood darkens. Smoke surrounds her, and she falls, choking on the "grey mass" that fills her lungs. The fire she makes seems to turn on her, which hints at someone whose wildness comes with a cost. After that, the poem goes quiet: "Then it's just us." The speaker is left alone with her, and her words hit like "a hundred hurricanes."

The speaker feels admiration, worry, and a little awe. The mood moves from bold and restless to suffocating, then to tense intimacy, where even speech feels powerful.

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