Shifting Wings Lifted
Canal channel calm
Calm swan route rowed
Rowed with your oars
Oars of square shoulders
Shoulders I sheltered beneath
Beneath your wings afloat
Afloat on luxe lake
Lake made me safe
Safe with your sage
Sage directed my passage
Passage protected
Protected from the ocean
Ocean of troubled tumult
Tumult groomed off my coat
Coat you fitted with new buttons
Buttons you held
Held securely together
Together we travesed
Traversed rivers flowing
Flowing patiently
Patiently picking me up
Picking up my supplies
Supplied my fantasy
My fantasy you strove
Strove to give
Give without hesitation
Without you I'm xeric
Xeric forlorn flimsy
Flimsy as a fledgling
As a cygnet in the surf, helpless
Helpless, hapless in danger
Danger eradicated
Exchanged for feathered heaven
Feathered my fall each time
Time I took from you, mine
Mine to entwine your vigor
Vigor towards your growth
Towards seperate ideals
Ideal provision
Provided constant care
Care dealt with no cost
Cost feeble offspring pressure
Pressure pulling on your wings
Wings lifted stretched out of reach
Reach their own potential
Potential to strengthen
Strengthen our bond
Bond of production
Producing competence
Competent, unburdened
16th January
Degrees of Separation
- for Jameille -
Copyright © Sigrid Ermine | Year Posted 2023
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