nowhere

untied

Love and love some more. That is all I know to do. 

Change course. Change my footing.

Change, change, change. Always for me to do. 

Taking hold of my stripped heart

As if after a long journey 

But only to the halfway mark

Yet just as famished for affection

Clamoring to hold on for breath

Stammering to hold in the hurt

Choking down words I have not

The ability to speak aloud. 

There is nowhere for me 

To make safe landing

No shore to beckon me toward

Tied onto nothing 

That keeps the wind from whipping

Across the ages and furthermore.

Love. More. Knowing it resides within your core. 

Stay the course. Yet make a course correction. 

Change perspective. Love a little more. 

Never the beloved. Never the one protected. 

Move, move, move. Keeping busy to pretend

Nothing cuts so deeply that I'll never see the end.