
I followed you here
Through the ancient riffraff of
Explosive form
Bundled as a seed
Fallen (falling still)
Without cushion into the
Hard ground of winter
Where the soil is still frozen
Has been frozen
For one quarter century
In purity
One day (not long ago)
The sun broke through
And it wasn’t shrouded
With soot from the fires
That burned elsewhere
Soon roots sprouted and stunted
And changed direction and
Continued downward –
Through a dark place –
While everybody else
Grew up(wards)
And we felt forgotten
(and too big and too quiet and too strange)
So we continued down
Darker
And damper
And buried
(but still moving)
I followed you here
And we were buried together
Until the damp subsided
And the worms died
And we smelled something
That reminded us of before
(sage and sandalwood and soil and petrichor)
We followed our noses
Headfirst downwards
Towards the grounded sun
In yellow in blue in maroon
And we remembered
We were in a forest once
It came upon us like
When we used to drive through
Tunnels with our eyes closed
(one second it is dark and the next is bright and hurts your eyes)
Bombarded with vision
The world re-saturates
And it looks exactly the same
And entirely different
Exactly like waking up
From a nightmare to a room
Softened by nightlight
In the arms of somebody you’d die for
And exactly
Unlike anything
At all
And then we sank
And never stopped moving
All around and up and down
And to and fro
And wax and wane
And come together and fall apart
And always be golden
We always embrace now
Against the backdrop of
The Southern Coastline
In England