Short Relinquishment Poems

A slip to wish
A solemn note
A secret code
A robin's egg
A final word
A slice of sky
A turning point
A breath to beg
A day to grow
A falling tree
A photograph
of you and me
A silver streak
A floating laugh
A broken vow
on my behalf
A tourniquet
A purple moon
A glassy eye
A week in June
A passing thought
A last good bye
A slip to wish
A final sigh....

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When the noise makes sense
and the malediction feels like a blessing;
the hunger turns into a fullness
as the defloration becomes efflorescence.

Only then will I know...

That relinquishment is just another offering,
that falling is just going upward;
the opposite is the way ahead to the straightforward.

Only then will I know,
by the true learning of loving you,
who I am....

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