Lost at sea?
(art work > an excerpt from a drawing by my wife)
(I am your wife, not
a graveyard for empty sorries)
In the beginning there was
nothing moving,
all still till we met,
melted to one in dark waters.
(I cannot be your stronghold, always)
In these waters time began to exist. I was becoming,
aware of your skin in this dark womb,
skin that vanished, leaving me utterly
alone,
though I was not aware by words.
I seemed (lifelong) lost in a sea,
adrift on hidden currents,
tiny turtle alone in the deep,
dreaming me to believe the waves
hallowed.
(there was no light by moon)
For too many years I let time unhinged
in inner darkness, cold to myself, henged in guilt
(you did not steal his life)
In that sea there could be
no fire.
(but by my smoke I will be pythia
break the seal, wake you)
to find our wyrd-lock had unwittingly ruled
(our marriage).
Now I begin finding my tears,
pearls screaming black loneliness from the sea floor,
muted by absence of light (yet dawn has come),
but for real: they are a gateway into the henge
of empty shells I built.
Hear me, if I dare,
see me, if I can find my self,
the way in marks the path out
unfreezing time into
we’ve become
more open (
now we’re closer
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Comments
This line is just awesome. It's a brilliant first line.
"(I am your wife, not
a graveyard for empty sorries)"
How many wives feel like that? Even husbands for that matter! Loads, I bet.
Great poem!
Thank you, it has been a struggle to get our marriage going (for 36 years, not because of a lack of love, but because of too much trauma on both sides, this is about my side as a Womb Twin Survivor (basically, because all other shit was a consequence of being a WTS). Now that we have solved a lot of it, my poetry is changing and becoming more and more true...