Ebner's Coulee

Now I'm walking

walking up Ebner's Coulee

is this a dream?

is this reality?

I can't tell anymore

like it's somehow forgotten.

No emotions

Even with the tears that are streaming

salty wet without meaning

15 year old boy just reeling

taking steps without feelings.

I hide in my skin

while people surround me

head in the clouds

how did you find me

here?

Of that, I'm still not clear.

She pushes away

the pain and the deamons

just understanding

not looking for reasons why.

She just let me cry

she just lets me cry

until I gave that sigh

and decide to live not die

Some emotions

The tears are no longer streaming

even with all that is still bleeding

Second time I'd been retreating

You wouldn't let me keep beating

on my own lost soul self.

Now I'm sitting

not way off in that corner

I'm just enjoying a day

I'm just enjoying some play

It should almost always be this way

that is what I've remembered.

The emotions

have been released from the dungeons

where they were tucked away

until you helped me see the light of day.

And with you at my side I know

it can stay this way.

Or if my head floats up to the clouds,

that you'll come find me again...

My wife, my love, my dearest friend.

For better or worse until the end.