8 May 2016

Better Than This


Last week I took a
Leap for love
And fell flat
Splattered heart
Still pumping
Slowly, afraid

Last week my dear
Friend from Norway and I
Shared a bottle of wine
On a Bridgeland patio
Together we answered the
"36 Questions to fall in love"
Just to fall in love
With each other even more

Friendship.  Bliss.

This weekend I've been
Obsessing about a boy
Who doesn't love me
Who am I?
 
The cat needed love today
Twisting her little body madly
To best expose her belly
She was, as Brene Brown and Maria Ulvestad
Put it - 'in the arena'
Like me

My friend with three lively children
Heard I was heartbroken
And dropped everything
To comfort me over coffee
And waffles

Tell me, sweet ones,
Does it get better
Than this?

Yesterday I was told that
When I was away
Gallivanting about the world
My boyfriend at the time
Sat down weekly with my
Little bereaved brother
For a year
Who just lost his mother
To watch TV
And eat chips

The perfect sacrament
In cases of death

This weekend my roommate
And I ate ice cream
And laughed at obscure films

The perfect antidote for a
Fragile heart

The sun shines bright
Scorches, blazes
And a song plays on the radio
My mom and I used to sing

'Georgia'
In rich, ripe tones

I smiled at the sky as I sang
Just an old sweet song
Knowing she was still
Singing with me

She always loved to sing

I burnt my ankle yesterday
Just one ankle
And fires blaze in Alberta
Swallowing homes
And livelihoods

And people, everywhere
Like my friends
Ignited
Dropping everything
To support

How intimate light and dark are
Such a wild, fiery dance

And also,

My neighbour fixed my bike
So I could race along the river
Where lilacs are in bloom
Their perfume plastered
Everywhere

And then,
 
Last night I saw the
Northern lights from my
Front porch
Dancing in the blackened sky
Above the city

No, it doesn't get better than this.