Reasons everywhere
To pick up and restore
Again and again
What is broken, but beautiful
Discarded, but eternally in-demand
Whether yours, theirs, ours
This banner, heralded

Reasons everywhere
To pick up and restore
Again and again
What is broken, but beautiful
Discarded, but eternally in-demand
Whether yours, theirs, ours
This banner, heralded


Whenever we part
Search back over your shoulder
My gaze upon you
How will you find it
Where will you go
It’s not just outside of that door
It’s not in the sing-song
The hoping to belong
You won’t find it pacing the floor
I suspect but don’t know
It’s there for receiving
If all at once we take a breath
Take one step then the next
To rewrite the old text
And treat it like it’s life or death
What if the mirror told
I was no longer there
Taken, stolen, gone, away
Would you think to care
Would you put up
‘Lost Cat’ flyers
On tall trees
From here to there
Would you seek me
Desperate
For my marching
In your hair
If the warm winds took me
To pillows that allow
My sleepy and my crazy
Would you miss my meow
Tell whether you would fight the winds
For each of our nine lives
To bring me back, once and for all
And marry my green eyes