See me,
briefly entangled in your mystery.
Captured for a moment
and then torn free.
Changed in my ways
from the experience.
Travelled far,
wandering ever since.
Wondering what has become of you,
while winding my own way through.
Recovered, but another comes.
Reopen wounds
where you had sutured them.
Broken my bones
so, I couldn’t run.
Healed under the wheel
of a scarlet sun.
Hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Cresting yet another day’s horizon.
Here I thought I recognized
something familiar in the distance.
Feeling the gaze of your eyes
on my skin.
How perfectly
the world returned me
to our mystery.
See me.
I’m coming home.
DJR – 2023
