Just In Case You Didn't Know
I couldn't keep the floating inflections from buzzing against my wings: I let them flow and savoured my words like melted butter on a silent day. I'm leaving.
I'm going to split wind like water and sign soft goodbyes to the final echoes of those vanishing hands: you deserve the best in life.
I'm going to embrace the lacquered altars my fingers went numb clutching, crying for peace.
I'll whisper gratitude for the midnight forests that blinded me, and sing sleep into the mornings a smile cost an ache in every muscle.
I'll hold you closer in beach hurricanes that brushed hair against your neck as they sent you asunder.
I'll keep your pendant in the quiet of pale blue and hum sorrow for every link that made it mine.
I'll return when the storm sits upon a desert horizon and I cannot move.
I'll return when my blood slows and my skin can no longer hold me.
I kept a sky for myself when the world began screaming: today I woke up to silence, and my heart remembered it's song. I'm leaving.