The Blood & The Bones

I do not know who I am anymore
since I became a child without a mother..
But I would give anything to go back.
Go back to a time when maybe I could have saved you.
Instead of running in these circles of grief
with a stranger’s face and a back that threatens to break.
No one understands what I have become or how far I’ve gone.
They call for me in these woods but
their voices are always muffled.

And
I am lost.
I am so very lost.

the blood
& the bones