Feather And Bone

you said, come with me

and so I did

I thought I could take

all your sorrow

I thought I could hold it all

I never imagined

your oceans

so bitter

the killing

the falling

the slaughter

of feather and bone.

I sat, still

in the five o'clock light

the sun came in through the crack

the floor to your room

was all splinters

and, still,

some are remaining

through skin

and through flesh

cutting in patterns

like diamonds

like needles

down to the bone.

I had to know

I had to see

I can take it all

but I will learn

to be free

I loved you

more that you'll ever know

even through broken windows

through the blood as it

ran down your fist

even

though it was my life

and my truth

and my hope

and my window gone.

and now

if you think I'm

coming back home

first I should tell you a secret.

I sleep with a sword near my hand

each night

sharpened with dreams

of your body

your murder

your blood

as it runs down

my street.