Quagmire

Feet heavy with clay

We stand in this quagmire

Of tears

A thousand fears

Circling around us

Like eagles seeking prey

Gazing out to a sunlit horizon

Growing dark

As we wonder if

We will ever find the way home

To each other

Over here I feel the gunfire

Resonating in my cells

Bombs exploding

Young girls dying

The fight for the feminine to find its freedom and voice

And here I will no longer strangle

What I truely feel and need deep inside

And although it may be impossible

To live these dreams we imagine

In the darkest and loneliness of hours

When all is still

At the very least the beauty of our twin souls

Was revealed in the longing

And the dreams and hopes that we held close like a promise

As we finally lay our weary heads

Down to sleep