It Heals Me

Unsuspecting, safe within their nest

I share goblets of smiles

And the happenings on our block

You have haunted me all day

But contrived and clement diversions

Keep your memory at bay

Now boldly you materialize in conversation

Caught and cornered I concede

Once again washed in the need to grieve

Tripping out the back door apologetically

Down the street to beat the tears, I race

So I might sob in solitude

Eventually I slump into a hard wooden chair

The heaviness weighing on me like a lead blanket

I ease my laptop open absentmindedly

The music pours over me like warm honey

And I feel the sadness slide down my thighs

Like last night's dress just a puddle on the floor

A chill scrambles the length of my neck

Dances up my cheeks on prickly toes

I close my eyes and cannot restrain a smile

The beat a potent seed, takes root in my pelvis

And there a liquid gyroscope untethered

Paints syrupy circles looping through the air

Within my ribs a wild bird of prey

Pounds against its confinement

Knocking its cage to the rhythm of his song

My lips mouth the words, the delicious words

And I am lost, my body a supple blade of grass

Stroked by a burgeoning melodic breeze

Atop a private mountain, bending in fertile sway

I have surrendered to the dictates of the music

Mercifully, it leaves no room for pain