OURS

Ours

May 6, 2014 at 5:16am

How appropriate

and utterly absurd;

Two artists meeting,

uncovering truths of soul,

and blowing off the dust

of a million evaporated tears.

In one puff,

happening suddenly...

Like turning your ankle

in a hole you did not see.

Thinking time and again,

Where has this been hiding?

Wondering how possible

or real can it be...

Something akin to a childhood fable,

A fairy tale,

A perfect seashell on an endless beach

of broken dreams.

To glide a chiseled

flawless path:

Ha ha, you knew better!

Every writer understands,

the most supreme script

has that element of darkness.

Always an evil queen

passing a poisoned apple.

And knowing who we are,

and what we are as well,

coming as no surprise.

Like the most intricate detail,

our love like a motion picture...

The one teen girls and young couples

flock to see,

and pay to see again,

and again.

Why would it not be this way,

So perfect?

But it's ridden with wounds

from bloody, broken arrows.

some painful moments

where the happy child falls

holding her bent, bleeding knee

and crying.

Where lover's think again,

Wonder,

Silently fear...

A bath even warm and soothing

can easily drown one.

Cast roughly atop the water

even a fish can die.

Scars can still kill

If we allow them power to strangle...

The hope lies in the storyteller...

It is we who do the writing...

Not fate, or hate,

or her...or him.

Not people or places,

Only two of us.

Pains and past can not write our story.

The epic tale of wounded hearts

cursing all

does not exist.

We are not a slave

To drama saying,

"This is too hard, too weird,

Too painful...I must go onward alone."

In the most wonderfully creative portion

of my brain, heart and soul,

I sit hunched over in the darkness of present,

feverishly penning the rest of our lives.

Because love is worth,

not only the creation of our story,

but the recording and rereading of it.

It means that much to me.

Its not just any story,

or any love...

It's ours.

-K.M.Q.F.
5/6/14