I wandered the unused path heavy and overgrown looking for small opportunities to see sunlight overhead something to guide me forward but each step betrayed me drawing blood warning root and stone to hold me still night apologized for truth only opportunity the past undressed bare, empty unwritten by the moment do you remember? the darkness asked and I did day apologized for truth beautiful inevitability one after the other lifted from the page like a butterfly flying on beach sand in the summer then with the wind dissolves to nothing do you remember? the light asked and I did In turn, I apologized for truth for wandering, for rising and falling like a breath over my lips clearing the path untangling the roots and sitting in the sunlight so you could find me again ~ la 2020
lei fraser 