In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
SCHUYLERMeet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Take me back to the evergreen trees; to the sunlight through the leaves, the bending ferns and fronds. The pitter of the rain, the smooth rocks sleeping under moss. Take me back to the life I know before this body.
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Change is not a four letter curse word I once believed it to be.
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For now, I’ll bring what I can to my own four walls. I recognize the purpose, the promise of this: a church is made by its space, by its practices.
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I’m choosing to believe things are getting better again. The give and take of joy, remembering a few days of ache does not mean forever.
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I allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
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I want to wade into the water on the sidewalk, crawl out of this feeling without giving it a name. Take a lighter to love’s sticky edges so its sadness isn’t caught in my throat.
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This does not have to be a hard life to love. There is not enough time to let it stray too far from my hands.
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Hold me here, where I feel less like a stranger to my own laughter. Where it’s easier to believe things happen for a reason or maybe, at least, out of a thousand winding roads my life might take, I will still find one that fits me.
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I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
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Your anger, your sorrow, your fear, are okay to feel through, no matter how big it feels now.
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We’re in spring and I have learned how to be gentle and sharp; strong bark on budding trees. Hold out your hands. I’ll leave a pink kiss and a pocket knife.
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I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
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If every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
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Meet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Please come here, but not too close.
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