Reconstruction

 

You came bringing me love

Saying there is a way out of here

And not all of life

Is out to hurt or trick you

But all I could hear

Were phantoms of the past

Reminders of how it was to feel the one

Always last

Never seen

And never able to fully trust

That the ground would hold me

So that now as you promise me this support

I find that at times

I am also running away

For I know it was far safer in my cocoon

Even if at times it felt as though I would die here

Slowly my caterpillar self has been growing wings

Tearing its way free from the chrysalis

So that even this morning there were drops of blood

Staining white sheets

And I am not sure yet

If really it is you

Who must save me

Wasn’t I always meant to save myself

Isn’t that what I have really done

Over all these years

But this I hope

Maybe for a while

You and I can live side by side

Hand in hand

Offering each other

A fresh start

A way to be part

Of a new world

That is being built

Over the broken bones of a past

So desperately in need

Of reconstruction