Dreaming The Real

 

I’m lying looking at the colour

Of sky falling through the trees, dreaming

The real, tasting what it feels like to love it.

 

Why did it take me so long to let go, simply

exhale, so the day could breathe itself in

and open without me standing in the way?

 

How could I forget the grace of my own body

strong as this blue, tender as the white

of the wild blossom, warm as midday light?

 

Let me practice a patience bold enough

to hold every weather , trusting the elements,

the beauty of rain ,all it shades of grey.

 

I want whatever’s real to be enough.

At least it’s a place to begin. And to master the art

Of loving it , feel it love me back under my skin.

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Linda Francis