Blood and Bone

If I never see you again,
I hope the stars light up in your eyes, where the Milky Way could have laid dormant in your orbs
That your desires become destiny, the cradle of your hands holding prayers, peace from what you’ve left untold
I know I like to hold on for too long like an expiration date, way past its time, knowing well I can no longer hope
I don’t regret loving you like we came from the same womb, hearts syncing like we were born the same blood and bone

If I never see you again,
I hope your mother can look at life with big, beady eyes, back before her name became “Mama”, receiving love like she did as a child
That your father may sleep in the sun, where his strength comes not from the weight on his shoulders, but from the wheat and wild
That your ancestors rest in soil fertile and green, growing over the granite with fruit to feed their spirits, hugged by the vines
And that you experience a love so rich and compassionate that your lover might build you a shrine

But if I see you again,
It may be when our skin’s lost its tenderness, pulling down with age as we’ve gone through tribulations and trials
Forgetting how we ever grew apart from each other, as each decade goes by, we grow closer to ascending higher
If generations were birthed out of you, the same ones we wanted to raise together, kids hopping from tile to tile
I want you to know that I loved you, and it’s okay that my heart was a bus-stop shelter from the rain, when your home was a long road ahead for miles

Zen Hatlang