One Day You Will Be With Her
… and you’ll never be alone thereafter.
One day you’ll be with a girl whose feet haven’t grown roots.
She’ll tell mountains stories of your lives,
and she will stare at stars
just as you’ve done your whole life.
She’ll hold your hand
and tell you everything that she’d seen.
She’ll sing the songs that will make your marching heart
pause and lean.
She’ll smile at you like you’re the
wishes she’d prayed.
She’ll recite your poems
better than you ever dared.
She’ll tell you her dreams from last night,
and oh! are they gonna leave you keen!
She’ll know about your glorious defeats,
and fill the voids left from past bleeds.
She will be as detached as you were once,
like looking at a mirror wiped clean.
She’ll become the one you won’t write about but,
will forever be hungry to read.
One day, you’ll tell her that,
and she’ll take you for a walk into the lush valleys she’s been.
From then on, hold your heart a little tighter,
because she’ll be with you everywhere — unseen.
