Exhaling

That old knot is loosening, unspooling like a camera reel - it rolls away 
along floors revealing snapshots of you, developing me. Those frayed 
wires and split hairs, the roads once forked, are starting to merge.
Somehow my plain palette is mixing anew with tie-dye swirls and splashes 
of violet. Droplets of blue and burning sunset reds brighten my easel. 

I exhale now, with you. 
With you, my inside is out. 
My body makes new shapes with you. 
With you, youthful songs grow a new nostalgia. 

My ball of string, the twine once wrapped and noosed within, 

is dangling 
in a breeze 
lightly dancing. 

And all this because you held my hand.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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