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You have let me go
Sometimes that’s what has to be done
You refer to me as someone other than
Who I was to you
And I refer to you as all that you were
And could have still been.
And you… you are detaching yourself from me
After all your professions and confessions
Have fallen like dead leaves around my soul;
I feel nothing anymore,
But oh, how it aches anyway.
Goodbyes happen all around us
And there are moments when we know,
“This is temporary”
But usually, we recognize this is the only
Forever I have ever known and you were the only
You I’ll ever hold like this…
Until your lifeless being lifts out of my arms
And drifts away.
I remember when I swam in the ocean
In November.
It was so cold.
My lips turned purple.
He said, “You should get out now”
But I was busy screaming over the sea lion
Who scared me when he swam up beside me
And I laughed so hard, I couldn’t breathe.
“We’ll get warm with the sun on our stomachs,”
he said. We pulled our shirts up and laid in the sand,
bearing our skin to the winter sun, praying for warmth
and I felt it like a child in my womb burning,
yearning for something to light on fire.
She said, “You’ve always been an angel
Since the day I met you” and then I flew away.
When you live on this side of the world
You can’t even answer the phone. It’s ringing.
You hear it with ethereal ears and you just smile sadly…
We don’t live here anymore.
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| | Posted 12/5/2007 9:33 PM - 2 comments
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