Grateful Remnants

Thank you.

For evoking the tumultuous poetry

That once laid dormant in hidden corners

Behind the locked doors of my heart
For unlocking those doors

For being just distant enough for me

To safely fall in love with you

And then recklessly, ungracefully out of love

Then back again at the slightest hue

Of the colors I saw when I met you

For being the mirrorrrorim to my past self

Showing me the outside view

Into the windows of a cowering heart's home

For giddy laughter, shy smiles, fiery anger,

For held back tears behind stone faces,

And unabashed emotion--

That cannot be accurately named

For making me happy enough,

Angry enough,

Sad enough,

In love enough

To utter words both shakily and eloquently.

For pushing me away and down

Scary, exciting, untraveled paths beyond the last

Of my remaining barricades.

For freeing me from you.

Please free me from you.

Thank you.

--

Kendra Lise

"El amor es alegria. No te convenzas que sufrir es parte de el." Paulo Coelho