Your Fragile Sail - Lainey Johr

i want to help
i want to ease my own fears that i have for you
and your daring venture into a world you are not
  claiming scattered pieces of 
but are coloring and leaving your prints
touching the boundaries and using your fingers
  like a funnel of stories
and making connections with those
whose textures have already left you a crag to
  cross over
with a feathered touch of intention and wonder
  and hope

i hope the days go forth like these might
that the boundaries of our worlds are never
  harsher
than these permeable and liquin that i imagine
  and dream
for our eyes and our skin and our minds

what i'm trying to say is that i miss you
  already
and that i love spending time with you
that you inspire in me the ability to dream in
  funny sentences
and no pictures if i don't want them

i want more than many things to be closer
to watch you more closely
to witness the growth after so many struggles
  with your soils

i hope that you don't get too worn out by
  searching
and trying against a hard, old wind in your
  fragile sail
and a boat of knowledge so often heavier than
  tolerated
with less than a twisted eye of doubt

keep going, keep believing that the solution
  to what we perceive as problems
will come in many often unexpected forms
and that diversity and change of direction is
  never wrong
although it may change the scenery, the route,
  the passage, the result...
that life itself is relative
that hope and clarity and honesty and dedication
  to those things
with love and what we will only ever understand
  as luck you will persevere
you will climb the mountain of understanding
of unendingly colorful and textured composition

and with a little grace 
maybe we'll both achieve this feat forever nearby
to share a light not many others will ever be able
  to decipher
from heat or mist or rain
following us around, changing the physical world, 
  changing us simultaneously
and thence beholding grace in that moment
what others will know as only a miracle

[ SUN, 30 JUN 2002 ]

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