MIRROR
7.31.19
oh shut up blue
today is yesterdays tomorrow and guess what
you lived
through the mud drenching wet rain finger numbing cold
every winter and sadness
all those droughts and years of stagnant you are still love
monsoons are electric
look at you thrive
summer bright and strawberry juice
a reluctant eve who will always prefer pomegranates to apples
but figs are in season back east
where the Mississippi meets magic and foxes are out for prowl
look at you challenge dragons beast
there are lovers big enough to fill your entire life
when your life is small, and the world breaths in
let them go with the exhale
when your world is large and your life is full
let the magic seep in to the next outbreath
you are cycle and marrow
filling in the gaps between destiny
and timelines
look how many threads you’ve sown
connecting pieces even when you thought
mischief
there is something pure about good
an no one put gills where there should have been lungs
go ahead
spread yourself into this world
shamelessly
fearlessly
at the end of the tally only you will come to reckon
and you know theres nothing more cynical than regret