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