Teach me to live.
Like I've never
Lived before.
Dazzling,
Soaring high,
Never looking back.
Teach me to live.
Teach me to die.
Each night,
Locked in your heart,
Burning alive,
Reducing to ash
And healing.
Teach me to die.
Teach me to live.
Each day,
Surviving the pain
Of loss,
Smiling through
Grief.
Teach me to live.
Teach me to die.
So I no longer dread
The morning.
Never regretting
The life
Before you.
Teach me to die.
Teach me to live.
Between times,
Behind the lines,
Gliding through
The shadows
Of your thoughts.
Teach me to live.
Teach me to die,
For I am
Too weary to go on
Remembering
The paths
Your kisses drew once.
Teach me to die.
Teach me to live
Loving
What's left,
Anticipating
What's
Yet to come.
Teach me to live.
I always enjoy your poetry. This reads like a whispered prayer to love and pain--raw, cyclical and hauntingly beautiful. Reading gives me the sense of vulnerability.. The type that asks to be felt, not fixed. It is so hard to put words to something so human and so hard to name. Yet you did.