Words of Acadiana

  Dancing with the ghost of us   Drunk on grief  Late summer night  Under a fluorescent moon  You rode into my life on the winds of fate  Lassoed my heart  Awakening my love  With no intention of loving me back  So all I have left  Is memory  Sepia Ghosts  To dance with on this heartbreakingly dark night  Mist twirls through the air Softening my rage  Into deep melancholy  Your memory  Driving circles around me  Trapped in the glow of the tail lights  You left without warning  Desserted me out in the desert  To wander alone  Wondering “what if’s”  They threatened to echo through my  Bereft brain  Until i realized that the magic I feel on nights like this is of my own making  This earth I trod  Full of those who came before me  I feed off of their strength  Til I can stand on my own  The only way I know is forward  Destination unknown 

We have walked through fires  Both literally and figuratively  You could file us under damaged goods  The damage fluctuates  The good remains  You are my sister  My family  My bones  Your support is the construct  Of the future me  Our friendship nourishes  Music like balm healing us  We excavated versions of ourselves in the desert that will always remain  One with the land  My heart forever grateful  For the flame that is your spirit  You dance through my life  Laughter like glitter in your wake  Leaving it more dazzling   

  The unraveling  Of my fathoming  The tapestry of us in my mind  Desert landscapes  Dreamscapes  Always feels like going home  To the golden light  At the center of all things good  Healing takes time  Mending takes craft  And with her dust she covered me  Deafening silence   Allowing my voice to reemerge  It’s all there for the taking  You just have to listen  I’ve felt my breath with the breeze  As it dances through leaves Leaving everything better in its wake  The unraveling  Gave me sustainable material  To rebuild myself  Into the person standing here today  Forever grateful  To my sister Marfa  There’s magic in your land  Freedom in your sky  Redemption from my past 

 Minds tied to hands  Tethered  Like dirt and water  Whose combination forms firmament  Earth and water  Shaped by hands  Sacred intention  Left to harden in the searing desert sun  Baked by heat  Man builds a dwelling  A protection from the harsh natural elements  Adobe  A lesson in impermanence  Of standing as long as we can  Until the elements reclaim us  The very things that built us  Usher in our demise  Beat down by Sun and rain  The wind that dried us out  Now demolishes us in our weakened state  Into a pile of rubble  But what beauty lies in our ruin  A testament of a time we stood in glory 

 There really is no coming back  From times and places that change you  From individuals who become anchors  I was the dust  You were the rain  In our monsoonal dance we became mud together  Shaped by fate, hardened by the searing desert sun  We’ve built something that will last as long as it can  Before the elements reclaim us  There’s simple beauty in impermanence  It’s how it’s supposed to be  Time is a construct  Less pressure on us to achieve the unachievable idea of forever status  Two egos, surrendered, driven by fate  We chose to dance down this winding path together  Equine love and amber sunsets in our wake  Ranch waters and hemp gummies  And so on and so on  Talismans around our necks  The quest of two tortured poets  Becoming less tortured  At the unknown end of the road lies friendship  Marfa and our past selves in the rearview  Contentment  Until it all begins anew 

 Serape dreams  As the sun dips beneath the Davis mountains  The warmth of the day lingers on my skin  Like your touch  But it’s fading as the cool night air descends  There’s magic in the air all around me, twinkling  A drum beat in my head  Are you the somebody making me move?  Dancing across a barren earth barefooted  With my heart filled with future  All of my memories of my painful past  Evaporate like desert rains  When you’re next to me  I see you down every road  In every direction  Intersections  I am a christened new version each time I wake  Left in your wake  Waves of love crash over my head and flow  Leaving me drenched in you  A new life  Soundtracks in my mind  Move my feet closer to you  Capturing this feeling  Feels like chasing midnight lightning  Through monsoonal Marfa summer nights  Electrifying  These summer nights keep me alive  Dancing and dreaming  A desert Gypsy  In the pouring rain  Feeling slightly insane  Drunk on this love