Month: August 2023

a mustard yellow vase
filled with dried lavender
would look like peace
in this window with this view
I thought it would remind me
of the autumn we met and knew
in the first shared glance and breath
and brush of skin how it would be
if we simply turned
and set out together
taking the thousands of steps
to now
I have not often been wise in this life
impetuous choices sudden reaching
precipitous consents have rarely led
to anything like certain knowing
or goodness
maybe in the end
it doesn’t matter if we fail
a million times as long as we’re
grateful for the one time we didn’t
I know all these many years
and steps and blossoms later
I found my only way through life
in you in your deep well of grace
that autumn we met and knew at once
how it would lead to this home
this window this mustard yellow vase
filled with dried lavender
and peace

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