RENEWAL
Growth
Such vertiginous folly,
Were these paths
Vines
How thick and knotted
They’d knuckle
With the failure of shuttered hopes
And wasted first kisses,
Thorns marking
Every heartbreak,
Drawing beaded crimson
From pricked fingertips
Seeking to heal and affirm
Such restless waking
That fled beds at dawn,
Sherbet sun dripping
Across seed and sweat-soiled sheets.
Let the blood brown
As a lacquer of pained memory
And the vibrant flower of self flourish
At the site of wounds inflicted.
That throbbing trust
Cleaved, discarded, left to rot;
Every death dissolves into
A fresh return.
And the bud tentatively worships
At the alters of new flesh
Opening slowly
Healing
Even as the scars of past blooms
Breadcrumb mottled histories
And expose the imperfect branches
Beneath our renewed flowering,
Petals grasping
For the dizzying heights
Of adoring light.
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