All Around This World

Hang me

You hang me

like tinsel upon your words

Like twilight entwined in the day’s awful nerves

Are these our measures?

Is this what we deserve?

I’ve been all around this world

Hang me

You hang me

as though crows would scatter afraid

How quiet these lives that

our mothers and fathers have made

We speak in shadows

Our shadows are lost in the shade

I’ve been all around this world

Hang me

You hang me

how hungry and stubborn we shift

These moons are too many

these bodies too swift

I think of you often in a dress set gently adrift

I’ve been all around this world

Hang me

You hang me

like curtains in front of a storm

Like a highway of ribbons

Like a love I should never have worn

This is our home

This house is where you were born

I’ve been all around this world

I’ve been all around this world