Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Healing Girl

Healing Girl

I hope you get that healing, girl
From all those things - none apologized for. 

For all the looks, the words, the pauses
For doubt, and judgement, and not belonging

Don’t just sit there on that tree stump
With hearts carved into flesh

Did the boy love the tree, and did she love he?
In end both left for dead

You corner yourself in that university bedroom
Praying to be unchained from that sleep

Drove yourself straight into oblivion
To those sunny cali streets

Or at 8 or 11 when you saw too much
At 17 when you wouldn’t give more

You crashed and burned by 21
Playing games and keeping scores

So you chased a boy, with sparkly eyes
For some healing due southwest

On that sharp cold day when he passed away
Promised yourself you’d heal the rest

But you wouldn’t walk through it - couldn’t sit in it
The air was just too thin

For breathing, or  being, or even believing
In buddha or jesus or a multitude of sins

I hope you get that healing, girl
From all those things - none apologized for. 

For all the lies, and tries, and scouring eyes
No lambs blood outside your door

But you can’t just hope for healing, Red
God damnit you know that’s truth

You’re no shy little girl, with her back to the world
You’re  only bound by your own tight noose

Stand up! look up!, look fierce! and  look brave!
You’re no lamb lost, scared and silent

Or perhaps you are, but you know for sure
You’re protected by a Lion. 

 I see you want that healing, girl
Fiery hair and eyes and spirit

Indiana’s  leap of faith, or saved by grace
Doesn’t matter -- walk right through it

No more hoping, wishing, begging
No more could have  should have been

Your on your feet, forgiving trees
And initials carved back when

I’d hoped you’d get that healing, girl
But even more i’d hoped you’d find

This courage to flourish,  no better yet nourish
Every cell he called “mine”

I see you’re chasing healing girl, 
I see you will not stop

Breathing, believing, and achieving
Every path you set to cross.

11/26/19


















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