POETRY
A Distance
Eyelids weighted from endless days, rolling into nights, rolling into endless days, rolling…
housing stony eyes, locked in place, affixed on nothing
you can’t do this forever
But you let it happen and you let it happen, and it happens even still, when you know this is on you
and your eyes roll upward, and your scene splits in two
and I hate you
The screaming rips at my throat, and it is unforgiving and I am unforgiving
and everyone deserved better than your worst
and you need us more
And one hundred miles doesn’t feel very far, but you’re gone and you go
Leaving a churning ocean in your wake
but now calm
Now quiet in a way you never, never will, never no, never know
there’s no peace on you now, it fell to us instead
and you let go
And you danced on the wind in your glorious falling, falling on your knees, on your heart, falling
Keep far, for it is better on your heart and mine
and I will forgive you
