Dropping all the fairytales
and all the dots that end sentences
Dropping the copycats
The pretention and pretending
My footsteps dance across an open, endless mind
my silences find sound
and my words flow in verses
I sing
Hey, over here
safe harbor
over here
world citizen
over here
home is over here
free of the punctuations
free of someone else’s dresses and sunken eyes
I see you through my open door
Without your punctuated skins
I see you
thinking you are barely standing
crooked bones
limp lost eyes
cracked lips
barely breathing
famished to the tip of your toes
wafting left then wafting right
so tenaciously hanging on a wish’s thread
just barely
Hey, I wave
Over here I grin
my smile wrapping 'round you softly
easing your barely there
steadying you're barely breathing
watering your parched heart
Take your time I say
safe harbor first
Fresh water is under the autumn tree
Drink
Slough off those crusts
Bathe your skin
and sip slowly while you listen to the whispering forever
Do take your time
Savor the water
Savor the shade of the autumn tree
You are safe now
Shed the cavalier whatevers
and those musty neverevers
those I cant’s
those imperative NO’s
Nothing is forbidden now
Let go and rest
cradled by the fresh autumn tree
listening to the whispering without endings
recovering from the forgetting
Step forward
when you feel ready
and
do come in
It’s safe harbor here
Changeling
Unwrap the cocoon
Shed the chrysalis
and stretch your sinews
inside the emerging
swimming in unpunctuated phrases
Be in the I remember time
refreshing your forever I’m
Say goodbye
to cavalier whatevers
to those musty nevers
to the crooks and kinks and tears
Welcome
gentle butterfly with two earth feet
Unlock your dance upon forever
Unwrap the false agenda
You are the new Legenda
Welcome… welcome… welcome
butterfly with two earth feet
do
come
in
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