Give Me Silence

 

 

when nights are long

and there is too much time to remember

tear fed raincold roots slide tangled through the dark

and forgotten words dance to an awkward rhythm

you will never understand

 

do not disturb me

do not distract me

with your promises of light

with your blank reassurances

and your tarnished concern

you do not know

what grows in the dark

 

while I weep

I am gathering strength for the spring

for cold airshock and blades of light

for the stretching and tearing

of what was folded

what was hidden

what was safe

 

so give me silence and time to grow

winter is my womb

my hiding place

soil that chokes your dead feeds the dreamer

and footprinted snow is the blanket that guards

my time numbed wormwrapped sleep