it was warm and sunny
my beloved was due home soon.
When they told me he was dead
I felt betrayed by the land.
I was talking on IM,
just opening up to destiny
now that I knew more about true Love.
When they told me he was dead
I felt betrayed by life.
The line between here and there,
having and then not, is so very thin.
I was lucky, I was told my Loves
had gone, I was not there, I did not see,
no one owed me and the grass did not
need to burn to explain the fall of
my world into a savage toxic ocean.
I am lucky for my heart is my own
and I can afford to heal …
