Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Day 6: The Other Side of Yes

Your right decision landed like a shipwreck.

Words draped
breathless
on the rocks,
  their beggar’s ribs protruding,
and
  your body doubled over
             with the shock
                    of new integrity.

Still, when you had finished it
            you   thrummed
the way you always do
   when     dissonance
            resolves.

The right owe no apologies,
and yet
 in grace you planted
fragrant gardens
   for remembrance.

Here,
 on the other side of yes
  the bells toll
never ceasing
  for the lost.
But now and then
            we raise our heads
and catch the smell of
   flowers
 on the air.



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