Today was different
Most mornings the north wind would catch my tail
Reining enthusiasm
If ever it surfaced
Frost biting my red lips
Would carve tender valleys
And tiresome yawns would induce morning contractions
Pains encouraged by existence
I was heading places mostly undesired
But there was safety in the familiar
Most mornings
Short burst of breath kept me from melting
Melting into the ocean where undiscovered depths were calling
Begging almost
To have me settle amongst ancient bones
Forgotten
Buried under the cold sands of icy waters
Most mornings
Callous layers
As I shed
Would trail behind the morning sun
By dusk
I was bound
Tangled between damaged threads
For the moon would do her best
To unravel
To rebirth
To encourage unwanted fragments
Absorbing her enchantments
Braiding together my left to right
But my flesh was worn
And I was stubborn
Muscles aged
Devoured over the years
Digested before they even existed
Yet below noticed horizons
Homed a spirit I’d thrown to the lions
To be ripped
Dismembered
But entangled claws drew to me a fierceness I’d yet to witness
Until today
Hungry palms clasped the steering wheel
Locked limbs
Dismantled patterns of escape
Sparks of severed obligations
Disappeared under wheels in motion
And my hair
Sensing hidden mists
Rising wildly to ignite dampened curls
Freely rode the wind
As my limbs relaxed
And ruling boundaries
Were broken
I was new
My palms grazed upon lush possibilities
I was hungry no more
Purged from me was the need
To know
For I knew nothing
And today
Resurrected curiosities
Met the very edges of my wonderment
Today I drove
Guided by sirens once stifled
Somewhere
Nowhere I knew
And I was free to bury myself below sacred waters
Amongst the bones
My bones
Today I was free
