We held each other
in the crumbling driveway,
my dear ones waiting
in the idling car behind us.
You hung on for forever-
forever, wrapped in what
felt like loss, or love,
or love trapped by loss.
It was a speck but familiar,
repeated over decades
it became a Mother\'s love
and her heartache too.
She has bridled well
these warriors of pain and grace
but she can take care now
as I invite them to melt in to my arm.
She pulls me closer,
which is telling and brave.
Thank you for the proximity, I whisper
thank you for your molding grace
Thank you for this speck,
the moment confers a license to feel.
I turn to the beauty in the idling car
resolved to hold them forever too.