Open your eyes and forget
for just a moment
Before sun settles into the Iris
Before long yawn and breath
Eat the day like you are someone else
Bite down bitter and cold on memories that won't leave you
shatter your grin to forget
Leave a long hopeless sigh under the covers,
scrape against the blanket sky and leave pockets for seeds of hope
But leave here and remember
So don't leave here,
keep digging into springs to bud your blossoms again
To grow backward into dreams and
away from what exists
Let your bindings be your grave,
soft and suffocating of your time
But…
Dig yourself out and remember what
sunlight tastes like
Bask in pain and allow petals to bloom and die
from your skin
Heave sighs like old memories into
a plot of open land
Grow future and hope,
far away but just under your feet,
rooting beneath your toes to become abundance
Grow away from your misery
Stand some day beneath shade you,
tender and loving,
have watered
Reach toward the weakest limb
and dangle yourself
Become sweet and juicy,
become ripe for something new,
become a seed for new hope
Become a seed