maybe someday i’ll forget your savage heart.
the water is over there but i still feel like i’m drowning
you see, she wanted me
to be her anchor;
she wanted me
to throttle
the pitch of the sea.
“it will not work,”
i whispered
over lightyears of familiar pain:
“the deep, it knows me.”
please understand that i never wanted to leave
i stood in the corner, as i did
when i was a child,
and banged my head against
the mystery of it all.
so much of it is timing, i know
Maybe someday we can find each other again.
10 September 2021
as I sit beneath a Tennessee sky
pondering my own dumb luck
I recognize how fortunate
I have been
always
and I know that this is not the end
that there never really is an end
just endings
and
beginnings
over and over and
over again
so i ground myself in now
right here
right now
with THANK YOU forever on my lips
and an irrepressible joy
tattooed on my heart…
Here we go again…
and that old sadness
like a school bus
arrived right on time.
write about me sometime, you said to me once.
i remember thinking
how strange it was
when you went away
that my love grew
teeth.