My Bones a Scaffold

If I could have my time again

I’d try not to forget how to swim

Make my way to the ocean deep

My own company I’d keep

I wouldn’t know what day it was

Or if it was raining

But that’s OK because

It’s all a changing

Into my new life I’d lean

A bottom feeder

In the proper dark

Feel the the weight of the ocean deep

Stretching above me…

I wanna age like glass of the sea

And lose my edge so gracefully

Take my ease on a bed of sand

Guided by and unseen hand

And oh what what sweet relief

From all these decisions

Give myself wholeheartedly

To the spinner and the spinning

Like a seed floating on the wind

A kindness that dives and dances

Yield all my say so

My parachute tangled in the branches

Even from this far below

I’d still feel the pull of the tide

The moon a dead thing stuck to this place

Still dragging water all over our face

My bones a scaffolding

To hang my pasty skin

It falls, unravelling

To keep the outside in