A Thousand Years

That song rips it out of me:

All that I failed to do

All I wanted to help him do

All the things we used to talk about

In the beginning.

I have loved you

For a thousand years

And that’s what it feels like.

Now I’ve shoved free

Sails open

And it hurts.

On to a new life

On to white walls and teaching every day

Close to my family

Warm weather and all things

New.

Help me to have hope.

Maybe

With this on paper

I have moved forward

One small step.

(early 2013)