I found you, fellow scum, 

screaming through darkness 

on a pebble.

I marveled you, 

caught your eye. Played my witchy game but then–

I lost you.

 

It was the saddest lie I ever lived. 

The everything I thought I had was 

clasped to a dam. 

 

I drove over bodies of water and wondered, 

                      where you were.

 

I didn’t recognize my lie, 

                        you pressed. 

Destruction, at the heart, who we don’t want to be.

 

Spent, 

you see what is worthy in me. 

 

I found you

weaving yarn on the castle walls 

                 feet trekking over leaves of snow 

                 and stacks of pallets stained blue

you helped me carry,

 

atop one sunbeam.