A dream..
Our
limbs streamed into dawn
leaving
trails of light and smoke.
We
curled into the air and
no
room could hold us.
It
started like this..
First
I took off my pride,
I
wore it like a shawl to shield all my insecurities.
She
loved it.
Then
I took off my certainty,
It
hung around like thousands of uncomfortable memories wound tight
like
a knot to hide my ability to be free.
She
loved it.
I
took off my fear,
It
gripped my feet like stone slippers, hoping to keep me from ever leaping
as
far as I was capable, often succeeding.
She
loved it.
Finally
I took off my doubt.
The
doubt that was there so long it had become me.
I
ripped it off to reveal
the
flesh of what I felt and might have, forever.
She
didn’t love that..
She
then left wearing my clothes
And
I started dressing for winter.
