With You

My Soul Sings me a Psalm

Photo by Nick Scheerbart

With you
     when the fabric ruptured
With you 
    absorbing the shock
With you
     when you closed the windows
          of your eyes
     so as not to see more

With you
     so adamantly unaccepting
     so thrown off foundations
     so utterly
        bewildered,  be-wilded
With you
     in the no place to go

With you 
     in landing the only strength
         you had
     your refusal
         was mine too

With you
      anguishing at unspeakable
         harm
With you
      holding the responsibility
      asking to be dealt in turn
          your own desparate dealing
With you 
      in this fulfillment
         this atonement
      experienced from both sides
         of the womb

With you
      in your many ways
         of exile
     seeking to extinguish
         the Not Right
     as if it were you

With you
     drowning in that 
         stark mistake
     until Justice screamed

With you
     then, when you woke
         to know
     retracing the path 
         you left by
 there is still Home

With you, Darlin', With you