Driven she creates
Strong as steel her thread of silk
Piercing through Dawn's dew

Sighs are beautiful

reliefs...the artful

kind.

Where ravens mix

with crows memorizing

faces.

Right before the first

snow.

Fingertip to pixel
Quill nib to vellum
Ochre handprint
Upon cave wall
Attempts
To describe heaven
The stars are surely
Captured most
In image
Word
And song
For they are
Both
Gate
And cage
Since the dawn
And ever long.

I don't
Know how
To describe
That the
Sounds are
Sounding
And my heart
Is *******
Pounding
Because of you
And your love
And I don't
Ever ever ever
Want to
Lose you
Because
It would be
Easier
To get hurt
By you
Than lose you

Maybe it didn’t have to happen.
Maybe I was just in love
with another man
and ended my relationship because of it.

And now I see—
it wasn’t meant to be that way.

And the relief I felt?
Was it relief from the marriage—
or relief from no longer having
to hide what happened?