you [two]

Today I wake up to you
and I don't want to move
at all
I cannot be with you
We cannot be together
I just don't work with you.
You flood my whole being and I am thrown into despair
Flatlined once again.

Nothing matters
There's no point to anything at all
Not when you're here
So I must go now
because I don't know how,
to be with you
So finally I move.

I open the door
Excited to step into my new shoes
And explore
And out we go you and me
You slipping away with every step

Into the woods I go
Dryness crunches beneath me
The warmth of the sun fills me
The further in I go
The less of you I feel in me
You slowly start to slip away.

And as I sit upon my destination
I feel me
My eyes meet everything
with the utmost delight
My lips move upward
My eyes smile
I am immersed in the beauty
 of a different you and me
I breathe you in, I breathe me out
Strands of yesterday exhaled into you
The freshness of today I inhale into me.

I see beauty everywhere
How can there be so much beauty in this one spot?
In this one moment? And in the the next and the next?
I stay with you
I linger
I feel my way towards you
And I breathe deeper into me
Together we exist
You and me.

I leave the comfort of the woods
with a deeper knowing
of it all
Of you and me
In this together
With so much love
So much gratitude.

Strands of the past
of yesterday,
Stay in the woods with you
breathing new life
into all and everything
Including me
And you.

© Jackie L Hutchings