Feathers

damages define our borders

wall and matter forged in flame

knowing little of your wounding

share our mending all the same

weight of words and wars we carry

I’m like you, just like you

eyes of stone and storm and story

share it well, we’ll make it through

sadness like a pendulum

pulls us round and to and through

onus, fate and undue odium

armor, anger, rod and stone

by telling

let them be

let them all be feathers

eyes of stone and storm and story

share it well, we’ll make it through

onus, fate and undue odium

armor, anger, rod and stone

by telling

may they become

may they all be feathers