Bittersweet Tumbleweed

I offered up my wings several times to lift you over raging ego licked fires but you chose to be a tumbleweed in a dusty ghost town called your life.. Everything I've loved you swept away frolicked in the shadows of my mind and for years that's where you played... I've placed the wings back where they belong sewed silky notes to a new love song the opaque lifting from my battered heart the moment you were gleaned then gone- Gentler things have taken your place, deep dialogue without barbs of judgment water lilies dancing on full moon lakes lacy hearts rippling with sweet percussion- I've spat out the last of your rancid chains can finally breathe without constraint though it took a wedge of precious time a starburst of clarity gleaned the ghosts from the back waters of my mind.. and yes my bittersweet tumbleweed I still dream of you from time to time-