2022 Dec 1: Belonging

Belonging

~ by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Forgive me, please, when I,
thrilling in how much I love you,
believe you belong to me—
like a book or shirt or a ring.

Writing that short list,
it now seems strange
I believe I own anything.
I know well the unstitching of loss.

Let me learn to love you loosely
the way I love morning,
the way I love song,
the way I love hawks on the wing.

Let me love you the way
I love poems, startled
and grateful each time I find
it is I who belongs to them.

 

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