maybe someday i’ll forget your savage heart.

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.”

i stood in the corner, as i did
when i was a child,
and banged my head against
the mystery of it all.

Maybe someday we can find each other again.

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…

and that old sadness
like a school bus
arrived right on time.

i remember thinking
how strange it was
when you went away
that my love grew
teeth.