1996

I’d forfeit my soul for one more day

With you in that place

In that house

An hour, a breath

Take away this future and give me back

What I had lost

I am as hollow as the bones of birds in flight

But heavier somehow

My wings shrunk in my cell

I could not spread them and so

The muscles withered and died

I am dust, get caught in someone else’s eye

Then flutter away unbothered

To infect another

But everyone seems to cry when I leave

In my dreams the sunlight flows through the barred window

To find me writhing on an immaculate floor

And I promise myself 

It ends right now

And I get up and become

Someone else

Maybe someone 

Whose eye was the victim 

Of my dust

Take these days away from me

And give me back what I had lost

Iron soul lady 

Honey bee seeking 

Shelter in a wilting 

Flower 

I

Shot

Down

Petals falling lost to the wind and an echo resounds through 

The fields

Of evergreen

I’d forfeit my soul for just one more day

With you in that place

In that house

An hour, a breath

One night on this earth

Where I’d lost my path

And softness was abundant

And time was a mirror

And water posed no threat

And fate was on my side

My love, listen

You will miss

Everything

You will miss

Anything

The most mundane of tasks

The harshest of feelings

You will miss

Words you said freely and 

Hugs given meekly and 

Table corner bruises on your side

You will miss 

Your old fears and the sense of dread when you learned

Everything

Dies