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someday i will cut my hair

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someday i will cut my hair,
let the dresser do her worst
will watch the ends go first, light
from holding all of the sun, hear the
sharpness of the shears, will feel
buoyant, and alright
and leave the dark waves behind --

                   someday i will bind my hands
                   with golden bands, will let a
                   man lace his fingers
                   through the spaces between mine,
                   palm to palm, squeezing tight
                   like a promise kept
                   but not yet, not yet -
                   for now i will spread my
                   fingers wide like branches
                   against the sky, grab anything
                   that glitters, let go without guilt

                   someday i will fill my mouth
                   with warm food in a safe house,
                   i will be soft and comfortable
                   with shoulders wide enough
                   to hold your head when it aches
                   but today i am hungry, hungry,
                   i am starving for more, all
                   sharp edges and corners with
                   shiny ribs and teeth and
                   a lightning storm between my
                   bones and behind my eyes

-- someday i will cut my hair,
but not today, dear heart, not yet,
today i will let it catch
the gales like tattered sails,
warm under the palm of your hand
from the late afternoon sunshine,
a dark river in the wake of my
running wild.
you swim from pulling tides
that swallow you at night
let go, let go, into
these rolling waves


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turns out i am stronger than either of us could have ever known. SO THERE.

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thank you all so much for the love. there are bitter days and better days. the bitter days sound like this, a companion piece, sort of.
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reechy's avatar
When I cut my hair it will be to finally forget- but this, this I love :heart: fingers branching out to the sun