HERO

I have never seen you

sit in the corner of the shower

head heavy with what you don’t say

But if you did

I would pick you up

and let you give out

if you asked me to.

I have never seen you

roll into me when you are awake

with tears in your eyes

hoping I will wait

but if you did I would

sit up all night

if you asked me to.

Tell me all the things I already know.

What your mother said, what your father did,

and how you were afraid you’d never grow

into anything special so you sat on the bottom of trees

looking up as everyone else had a wild climb

and you reasoned I was on top of that tree

the whole time.

There were two months there that we were

completely ourselves and I’ve been searching for that woman

you found

ever since.

“Hero”

Original Poem

April 2015