The Blood & The Bones

When love starts to take on that translucent haze

You realize how temporary all the plans you made really were

You start to see the future with bare sides, empty hands, steel heart

You tell yourself you’ve been here before and it was silly to think you wouldn’t be just in this exact spot again someday

I can take comfort in the fact that the path to being left and leaving was neglected for long enough to grow flowers where the trail had been

But it’s still there

The only sure thing

And now that I know the end will come, even if I don’t have the day or time, just the peace about it in my heart

I can prepare

I can make a way to be ok

The waiting for it to be or to no longer be is always the hardest part

This I know better than most

But warning makes the knife blade a little less terrifying

When you know exactly where it goes and how the hurt will almost kill you

Almost

But also that you know well how to begin

Again.

the blood

& the bones