Mi Corazon Quemado Por El Sol

 Intense sunlight 

Gave way to long, dark shadows 

In the absence of your love 

I rode off 

Like some unhinged outlaw 

To lick my wounds 

Untangled 

Catastrophic blues 

Set me in motion 

Beige sands 

Shifted 

White clouds above 

Exposed in these desert conditions

I impose upon myself 

My heart, sunburned 

My soul, tattered 

Winds shifting like your gaze 

Blowing me in 

Then  blowing me out 

Places drew me in 

Others warned me away 

Healing is just as messy as the falling apart 

The answers were just around the corner 

I mended my own tapestry 

Repairing the lacerations you left me with 

Weaving myself a new life 

Still it’s not to say that I don’t miss pieces of us 

Pieces of you 

Sometimes as the sun illuminates the tears that stream down my dusty face 

I ponder what could have been 

Only takes a few seconds to see 

This is what should have been 

For I’d never have become this version 

Had you not pushed me away 

And even in my residual brokenness 

I thank you for that 

Heavy is my heart at times 

Light as a feather I tread