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.
A deeper dialogue without barbs of judgment.
Lacy hearts rippling with sweet percussion.
I've spat out the last of your rancid chains.
I can finally breathe without constraint.
From the backwaters of my mind.
I still dream of you from time to time.
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