and the city started to become quiet, understanding the mourning that it would soon face. The boy, now man, that it had harboured all these years was moving to a new place. A new spot, a journey began, a new province discovered.
There will always be time for lament, time for reflection. But action, there are few moments that truly exist where action is actionable. Where potentials turn into possibles. Where someday's become right now...
After the drama, there came so much trauma,
and my heart was so quickly un-homed.
I braced for the burden, and learned how to hurt them,
deflect the fire within to the world.
I caused damage a-plenty, and let myself down, see,
my pieces were fragments and shards.
But in that lesson, the pain was the best one,
the father and son said: "Learning's hard."
So years had then passed, I cried, and I gasped,
out for air, but there was nothing of merit.
No reason to press on, but the memr'y of bird song,
and the gravestone green shade of mistletoe.
I returned to the wilds, and out of snow I carved smiles,
then by spring, melted, and tears streaking jokers.
Now it's nothing but filler, lost timing of love's killer,
If her heart was a hearth, I would still be the poker.
Now the story's grown long, has not even begun,
But the truth lay deep in the stable.
For the eyes of the devil, caught my tongue in such drivel,
Then the horses ran off, my eyes, to horizon and mabel.
Tell me of the summer, tell me of the fall,
Be reminded of the seasons, your heart felt so tall.
Then remember the springtime, and the deep winter freeze,
Where you were hopeless and broken and fell to your knees.
As this chapter comes closed, as this book nears it's end,
Know that I never once faked love, never did pretend.
I was always a good man, even when I faltered,
I never cheated, or lied, I just fell short of Love's altar.
So as the words do run out, and the ink all runs dry,
Love, just know I was there, just know that I tried.
As I watch the light stream in, to this cabin of shadow,
I know I can be light, and I have become healed.