Reason to Stay

because I am born and I die in the open and close of your eyes — in between there’s hope for a love much kinder than this

Nightsong

It’s 3:00 am and the flutter of your wing breaks open the cocoon of our tangled limbs. The quiet enters and we are again unsteady; Scarred by the song of the cuckoo bird that you can’t drown out and I can’t hear. I reach out my hand, blind in the darkness, hoping to grasp onto…