So so beautiful
and this is all too needed
in my strange little tiny world

i remember being smaller back then
and yet so much more myself
in only some of the useful ways

~

you are towering above me
strapped with furs and my attention,
the good omen I didn't know I needed

we are symbols meeting and reflecting,
inwardly and every other way
hopeful but still bound to what we've left behind

your eyes find mine so easily;
i'd pull myself wide open
just to wrap you in my warmth

~

i was grateful to be present
to witness your vessel
as it headed off towards adventure and new compassions

even though i'd rather whisk you away
into a story we'd write about tomorrow
at the dawn of what's to come