A Poem: Until Yet
Bound within resenting rigidity
lied an unwavering unavailability.
Caged hearts deceived,
cold fronts I believed.
I sought salvation in tears
one’d never weep.
A sacred tender.
And gentle caresses to keep.
I craved.
Until
I caved.
A choice,
a darkness of doubted love
Until
My deception bled into light,
an ownership of my plight.
Within this change of season,
lost and futile are the reasons.
Yet the struggled fight to breathe
gave way to an empty space of being.
Until
Forgiveness relinquished blame.
And shuddered gasps of felt emotion
released me into the ocean.
Perspective amidst paddled possibility.
Grace in an unknown surrender.
An intentional liberation,
an unhindered embodiment.
Roaring rivers of anger and rage,
I feel the search, see the seethe
in fleeting songs of strangers,
rhymes intwined with women and whiskey.
Yet through the taunting symphony,
the unseen is shown.
In these selected pursuits,
I rise to sing my own.
In this scribble of vulnerability,
desire lives as hope,
for ones path to lead
to peaceful, lapping waters
upon your feet.