numbered as we are


  1. light
  2. I feel light
  3. like I can be lifted away
  4. let me explain how this occurred
  5. I fell in a hole - it was a mighty big hole
  6. I needed a rope and a friend threw me one
  7. he advised make a list, we became tug boats in the storm
  8. still I was in the hole so I went to eat and sat
  9. planned a vengeful plan and shared - she heard me
  10. it would work she said - then talk turned to my x: how his pulling 
  11. the whip cream bowl from my hands at thanksgiving hurt more than anything
  12. that occurred in the California sun or a shed in south Texas - it brought
  13. the moment I decided to extract myself 
  14. that was vengeful: see where it got me, 
  15. in a hole where I am a tug boat. I realized 
  16. I was flawed and like the Israelites 
  17. if executed I would have to go around 
  18. the mountain again, 
  19. so no: not a good plan and we were leaving and I 
  20. asked how did it happen for her, beloved - being a pastor you 
  21. know that moment well. She gave her story 
  22. and I understood how - but seeing that this was not Antioch - 
  23. I settled for a catholic church
  24. and he was old, his blue
  25. eyes glazed, running late for his sermon, he stopped
  26. heard, btwn the tears, his hand on my head
  27. his other on my lower arm, he prayed
  28. my friend by my side, she stood witness
  29. it might be cliché, or it might be
  30. what I needed: tears stopped
  31. and the priest ran
  32. off, and we sat
  33. out side,
  34. and I feel his hand on my head, his hand on my arm, and I feel a stab in my rib
  35. and I feel light
  36. so light
  37. not caged
  38. and I have nothing
  39. to worry about -
  40. I understand
  41. why I was set free
  42. so I can be your best friend


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