Leaving

.

30 july 1998 *** 12:40pm

.

left me with something

somewhere i could start

.

a heart on my sleeve

a song in my heart

.

left me with something

something i could show

.

a howl in my cry

a strong letting go

.

left me with something

something i could drink

.

a watering can

the kitchen sink

.

left me with something

something i could face

.

wings on my feet

a butterfly’s grace

.

left me with something

something i could do

.

poetry’s madness

a maddening hue

.

left me with nothing

nothing to say

.

left me for nothing

a needle in hay

.

left to me nothing

except for a muse

.

a painful reminder

being left

being used

.

i leave the world something

i’m going to be

.

eternally resting

eternally free

.

a lesson in love

a lesson for life

.

a lesson of sorrow

bequeathed to my wife

.

she’ll never know how

my love will atone

.

she’ll go then to vail

if i go first alone

.

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