Velcro

I realized
A house plant bending to absorb the light

There is an arch in its foundation
where long lean leaves are pulled towards the earth - but hang suspended in mid sentence;
a statement of inability to know that there is still only time to come before there is nothing.

I've been thinking about what it is to be living

I placed my hand to my heart
and found nothing familiar it each beat

You are in there beating away
making my tears well at the slightest thought of love

and the way it feels
for my cheeks to warm and become pink
for my soul to expand
for consciousness to flood in again
to welcome myself back from being so desperately sad
about all of this