small

I knew 
I could do it

it wasn't anything
to necessarily
be afraid of

I just wanted
to
slow
it down

I 
wanted
to feel

it

breaking open
inside of
me

you know

I have to
let my mistakes 
live

so that
I can truly understand

how desperately
Small
everything around me
really is

maybe
if
I look closely enough

maybe
if
I look on into the inside

of 
me

and
you

all of my fears
will fall away

as

falling embers
of things forgotten

maybe

I want 
myself

vulnerable

to all of the little things
inside you
trembling with an essence
of emergency

I know
we can do it

I know
we have shaken the ground
with our love.

April 2014  AKW