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Ingrid Showalter Swift | + Follow Poet |
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I Will Watch the Sunrise and the Moon Set

I will watch the sunrise and the moon set
I will taste oysters and reap mint
I will harvest vegetables from the farm stand

I will live as an orphan adopted
finding joy in rain and in snow

I will walk on many often peat-ed paths

my paths are dune bound
and stretch to a salted dark pea green sea
The songs of gulls and osprey decorate the sky
inner ear re-peating long after they are flown

I tiptoe where the plovers nest

challenges come 
 seem insurmountable
 and then flow away ....on the trivial tides

My heart is broken today
Tomorrow 
I will learn to worry only when asleep 
I will ask humbly 
for acceptance of the hard and cold .......like those 4 nails

embrace the bloom...but adore the fall

When the sun sets early 
I will adjust my internal organs
wooing them 
 I will rejoice more having understood darkness's seasonal game

So when spring next year kisses me full on my pale waning lips
driving me closer to the close of my life

I remember that you loved me
I will remember that I loved you

I will not argue that we are not together
I will not rage against the almighty machine behind 
the soft flowing velvet curtain
 
I will not ask
why I can't have everything I want!

Before
 beautiful heartbreak was dark chocolate's
 burning bitterness 
fraught with the bows and ties 
flaming storms of mental confusion and conflagrations of desire

I no longer hold onto loss

You will die and there's nothing I can do about it
I will keep walking down these -bike tire and flip flop rutted paths
scanning the horizon for boardwalks ...that stretch out into the sea

What a gift it is to walk out deep past the cresting wave breaks  
Without fear
Without sorrow
Without regret

Trusting the current to take me gently... insistently into the bliss

Copyright © Ingrid Showalter Swift | Year Posted 2022

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