Recovery Road
Forget the sense of melting when your chest
Felt waterfalls of wonder from your soul,
When tides came as a wave, a glistening crest
Which washed your heart and left it kneeling, whole.
Leave memories of warmth behind, the shape
Which made blood sing and forced a thud of thrill
Inside your ribs. Efface that touch on nape
Of neck, that smell that aches within you still.
Erase those sentiments he branded in
Your throat with words so utter you fell dumb,
So final they confused both grace and sin,
So loving or so grim they shocked you numb.
..Give up to God that hair, however strong
….Your need, however whorled, dark and long.