Dancing with detachment,
I watch the still planes below as I leave.
For just as I can't help the type of blood
that runs over my bones,
I have inherited my mothers cold feet.

Dancing with detachment,
As I wrap my arms around my grandmother
I feel her stiff shoulders shift,
see her skin as too big of bracelets around her wrists,
and wonder where her time went.

Dancing with detachment,
I'm standing in the front yard of my old house,
in the space where I accidentally grew up.
I go inside to climb the staircase that
spills into my parents empty bedroom.
And just as Win Butler once said,
I wonder what ever happened to them.