Ready for Your Eyes

For Osa & Khadija - Poem Nine

i listen to
my Heartsong

the Bass 
keeps me
close to what
I feel-mean
at Self-Root

the instrumentals,
Ground beneath me
a steady-consistent
reminder that 
I am accompanied
by The Truth

there are many things
that happen
between
a man
& a woman

trying harder
than wanting

to stay
'just friends'

there is
what you know
that you haven't
divulged

& there is what
I sense

what we didn't
discuss, speak-clear
to one another
or maybe-still even
to our selves.

i penn in my journal
first tonight
because I want
the words accessible
to you
to be
Ethos-aligned.

I will to write
for you & the Public

what will shed comfort-healing Light
into Cœur-Corners
abandoned
still bleeding

but closed-off
for weariness of working
outside w/ Buried-Blood-cached Hands.

I have a Medicinal-Mission,
am charge-committed to
crafting Lyrics
by which 
One may safe-sweetly Live.

& so even in my ache-anger,
I will penn-speak
of Us
in ways able
even also to you-heal.

~~ composed 5.26.24