Burial Ground

Sweet Sanctuary, thank you for cradling me.
enveloped in green, tropical trees, ants building
homes on my body, I cried.  I sat, and I cried.
and like the loving mother that you are, you
held me there, breeze blowing through my hair.
everything will be alright.

Daddy, I release you.  I release the need to save you
from invisible fears and monstrous choices.  with
each tear, I let you go.  memories pouring from
my body to bury themselves in the earth.  perhaps
a flower will bloom from the thoughts left behind.

and now it rains. no resemblance of my tears
remain as my pain becomes the same water
that washes the dirt on this path.  I am the only
person that I can save.  I know that now as I
step out into the world, equipped with the earth's
blessing to love with my whole being.

Copyright Melissa Simonson 2008