Unwinding
Before the slow unwinding Before the waves that never seemed to break Spilled out and swallowed us whole To see you was to become overcome with joy It was to have the ferris wheel Go round and round endlessly It was to have seen fairies and unicorns and all that silly nonsense that was But could not possibly be It was to not even believe in extinguishment But now, after we have become Ancient, and tired of our affair I learn breathing In and out and in I learn the beats of the pain The way it clenches, the way it sprawls The way it makes everything seem So embarassingly difficult, So hopelessly mundane It it to look at the sea and know it is coming Yet be shaken unsteady, still widen your eyes And say 'I never expected that at all'