Forgive the darkness, it slows your heart that resists rest,
makes things hard to see, but do we want to see everything?
i could name a few that I would rather stayed in the black of unknown.
Forgive those heavy eyes, that read a story but won't share,
that know the words but mouth only regret,
they know a truth and teach you with a gentle hand.
Open now to that strange road that feared you in your wilderness.
Tamer, as if by the will of your future, half eyes open,

something jumps awake,
that soft calm you remember in dreams you forgot.
tears, hot and mild fill that place that was defense.
flooding the bristle of anticipated destruction.
quenching hot anger, deflating remorse.
Standing here,
in the dark,
your eyes aren't so heavy anymore.