Rose LeMay

Guess where I am bound today!? National Park here i come! I just love the trees, don't you?

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Rose LeMay

Happy Chinese new year,new moon, solar eclipse and all the other yada yada

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Rose LeMay

SUNRISE WITHOUT ARGUMENT
By Rose LeMay

A dream interpretation;

We slipped through the beams
like thieves of our own destiny,
me counting the rhythm of light,
you counting reasons I was wrong.

The house was wired with consequence.
I knew it.
I felt the hum in the walls.
Every step had a pulse.

“Pause,” I said.
“Just breathe.”

But your voice was louder than the alarm
and that’s what set it off.

Red flashing.
Footsteps.
Hands on your shoulders.

I didn’t run.
I didn’t scream.
I just thought,
Same old story.

You fighting the map
while I’m already at the door.

—

There were alligators in the yard,
ancient and patient.
Spiders stitching anxiety
between branches.

Still, I flew.

I always fly.

—

And then somehow
the scene dissolved into shoreline.

No sirens.
No lasers.
Just salt in the air
and a sun climbing out of the sea
like forgiveness.

You were there.

Not arguing.
Not correcting.
Not measuring me against your fear.

Just silent.

Mouth open.

I didn’t have words left.
I didn’t need them.

I pointed to the horizon.
To the way gold spilled over the water.
To the warmth pressing against our skin.

“Do you see it?”
I whispered,
though the ocean answered for me.

And for once
you didn’t debate the tide.

You just stood beside me
while the beauty
took your voice.

—

I didn’t feel victorious.
I didn’t feel saved.

I felt joy.

The kind that doesn’t argue.
The kind that doesn’t defend.

Just sunrise.
Just breath.
Just the quiet miracle
of someone finally
looking
where you’ve been pointing
all along.

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