DAWNING ON THE RAIN S

we arr ived at the gr and canyon and it softens against your spine r ust melds to your feet and car ves out a hollow at the base of your neck do you remember the whiplash before the wreck? gr avity null, hair froze in the breeze . emer ged with blood on our foreheads hood cr umpled my lungs limped when you sobbed at my steer ing coupe; ashed what it bir thed i want you to know that this scene these boulder s will one day erode , bend to tor rents and become the sand it once came from and i want you to know that this stone and these tr ails have kissed dir tier people , ones who’ve messed up more than you and i want you to know that recover y isn’t linear and that this scene will embr ace you regardless; that i’ll dr ive fur ther than you’ll ever want to again so that you’d under stand we arr ived at the gr and canyon for it to r ain to muddy to brown the scene but you are clean and for given. you will live to see the cusp of another hor izon.