free roses

i want to live in the woods & maybe stay awhile. i want to lie down where it’s warm with the sun on my face. i want to lean over & kiss your neck while the clouds roll in my peripheral. i want to taste the salt on your cheeks & the freedom in your heart. i want to touch the sky & hear the moon. i want to dance underneath her light & then lie still again as she whispers to the stars “that’s your cue.” i want to look life long in the face, take it between my hands, & breathe it in.

& i got so many questions. been collecting them like praise from my mother. questions like why do we get so far from ourselves sometimes and how come trees can’t talk? & life would say “well maybe they can” & i’d laugh and say “you’re right of course you’re right. will you teach me how to listen?”