Just Me: Revised
The bruised and dirty knees of a tomboy with
an unraveled braid of so many summers spent running through the woods skipping
school, skipping out, red lips, red eyes, black thigh highs, creepers, concrete, weed, dancing down town up town
drug overdoses, wild nights Deep Ellum to Houston.
Hurricanes, banjos, legs, blurs, Rues, and Blues
Clues, Crashbox, Between the Lions, Big Wheels, barbecues, lullabies, and story times. Hugs so pure, eyes so bright, love so unimaginable it gave strength to rescue them me us
Me became three, Triforce.
Rafting: medals
Jumping off buildings, rolling, climbing, flying with the monkeys to become a superhero to a son
A superhero who once more fall a long
long way to save a daughter
lashings, late night ER trips, suicides and attempts, convulsing drugs and Dr Seuss
Oh! The places
we've been
Down and back up I've taken us
Safe nights, warm, soft, calm, preparing to launch
Study, study
storms to brain storms
Strength, beauty, courage, triumph, adventure
And now ... I see
Fini
In the kitchen
Broad light of day
4 days later
The ink wasn't dry
Of course this was just another moment of love on borrow
Smoothing the wrinkles left behind
A band aid on a bruised ego
I'm the salve for burned heart
Irony wears a pretty dress
So many times ears have played fool
Words so eloquently strung in a score
Only later to burn into an apathetic scar
Repeatedly the burden falls
Into no longer quivering arms
No time
Not a single grain of sand will ever again be allocated
The moon is mine alone
Singing me to safety
My secrets tucked away
Interviews turned away
I always did score high on your card, the praises and false understanding
No sutures for a heart left by the side of the road
Now part of the landscape
