as we metamorphose

light through window as I awaken my shoulder aches but I raise my arm branches in full bloom reach for the sky everything looks the same but my heart knows something’s different my ears ring but lines run through my head before opening the laptop and writing a poem morning stillness but the roommate’s cat comes to me it’s comfort I seek after loosing the one I loved one year ago but scenes play as if yesterday the morning a litany of my many lives it opens its arms to embrace me I feel a sense of warmth when letting thoughts wander I play the same old ballad but the meaning’s changed