Your forest feels familiar, friend
I can’t claim to know the way to walk, but I feel forevers echo in each footfall that follows
I’ve been here before, been yours before
I’ve known these woods, those words, this wonder - all by heart
The sparkling seasons sway and swoon in shades of glittering gold and rusted rouge
Painted bright as the sunlight they spent summer soaking in
Leaves lazily loft from aspen arms like petals fallen from the forsythia blazing behind the barn
Love me now or love me not, darling, it wouldn’t change a thing
I took you to my hiding place to show you what I’d found
The odds and ends of french braid afternoons sat surefire in silence to see me swing
Back and forth to the tune of some lost little lullaby
I think you must have been there even then, but you are so much brighter than I remember, baby
I’ll wear that light in my ribcage until my bones are reborn roots
If I am blessed enough to be born again with branches, I’d like for someone to hang a rope swing from my strongest spot
Somewhere soft where she can sit and swim in someday
Until that day arrives
Until home is your heartbeat beneath my cheek
Until I take you to my hiding place, to show you what I’ve found
Fold me in forevers while the world forgets my face
The soil will steal all but our souls once we’ve learned why we were here
And oh sweet sir,
Someday we’ll say we were -
We were here.