A Stillness

endlessness

eventually brought her to the place

she had been running from

running to all of her life

morn of a cool, leafless day

she raised up from her sleepless night

even before her feet hit the floor

tears fell down her face

she looked for her warmup pants

she had thrown off sometime during the night

found her socks

managed to put on her tennis shoes

Had they seen

How much she loved them

How much she had worried about them

How long she had held on just for them

Before

Letting go

Of their sweetest, most loving

arms any one mother could ever know

would they understand

she had become

lost

along the way

how each road

every path

landed her

in just another patch of thorns

all she had ever wanted

was a home: fireproof

how she had continued to yearn

for that little cottage in the clouds

rocking chair on a porch

with a view

where she could see

as far as the eye can see

where the wolves

leave her be

where the wildflowers

run free

a stillness:

forever holding their hands

she closed her eyes and watched

soft clouds float by