a new year beckons
you once said…
…and i’ll steal a dollar from my momma’s purse and buy you that skull n crossbones ring tie it round round your neck with that old piece of string we found…. and we’ll spit on those bastards and slash the tyres on the school bus and laugh and run away…
now don’t say a word i’ll grab that old piece of wire from that rusty fence n scratch your initials on my wrist….
you once said…
it’s okay
don’t second-guess
it is messy
lying next to my heart
i knew
i’d survive
always a strong grrl
but
today i sang to myself
and saw that
i am
happy.
i’ll always live
fight
love
experience
witheverythinginme.
If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land.
But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
~ Pablo Neruda