So full of feeling this just gave me goosebumps… Simply simply beautiful….had to share
If you said today
Run away
I’d reply
I’m too old of heart for taking chances
And yet
If I could leave behind
These footprints of hell
I’d turn my bag inside out
Leave the clothes that made me and now don’t fit
They can hang on tree limbs for another girl
Who hankers after fushia and magnolia
If you can live without
A stomach
I’d set mine free
And empty as a cloud, run
In your direction toward the sea
Where salt spray would take the last
Residue of this awful time, turning back horror
Remind me of joy I once took as permanent
Clamboring through live oak, like fairy folk,
Rays of light like stars shine down from sky
Happy dogs, wet with run, tongues lolling, espie March rabbit
The thin stream between content and crestfallen
Just one turn of fate and all you cherished is gone
Reclaiming…
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