I Saw No Other Way
From my seat on the airplane
I watch the years drop away below
The man with whom i shared a bed. towels, salads, a seat on the sofa.
He says i was too hasty
but I felt strangled there.
The longer i stayed, I was heading toward darkness.
He doesn't understand
why I had to be so hasty.
I felt a noose around my neck.
Hard isolation, such limitation, a kind of prison that was pulling me down.
Now is when i needed to leave
Yesterday
For some deep gut level reasons that I'm not sure I fully understand yet
From some inner place, a healing of self
I suspect that some inner sense guided me
Against his usually good judgement.
But I have to remember who I am again
I saw no other way
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