10-23-20 Dirt and Water

 to be empty and still be full

to be nothing and yet everything 

to feel at all 

as if in a delicate dance of patience and fire

twisted and ever so sure that it could fit

i’m left here 

life dirt and water 

no one could really understand the mess

but that’s what you were using 

the garden is tended 

the vines were green

and all I could do was reach

you were loving 

and all I could do was reach

like a delicate balance of green and joy 

you understood 

you understood the dirt and water 

and somehow you crafted 

I want to understand like you do 

I want to love like you do 

like a delicate balance of love and sacrifice 

you were reaching and I was reaching 

and somehow 

someway 

we danced

/dirt and water/