Memory Tree

Morning enters  from every pore of my skin

My heart is warm again

The sun still hesitates to caress my eyes

Out of a dream

hanging from the ceiling

a tree of memories

faces and laughs

smiles and tears

i look at it motionless

fear is not in my heart anymore

This morning

an old voice echoed in my ears

telling me to wake up for school

telling me to wake up for church

a mother's touch and a father's kiss in my forehead

twisting in bed with fever nightmares

the face of a brown-haired girl with shiny freckles

friends and summer days by the sea

a seashell in my palm

trying to hear the mermaid song

The memory tree changes shape

fear is not in my heart anymore

First kiss on my lips, 

lovers long gone and forgotten

crazy craving of the flesh 

nights under the stars singing my love

tears and deceit, pain of a broken dream

One moment enclosed in frozen time

and You, at the top of that magic tree

kind and gentle, 

simple in your soul beauty

you smile at me 

breaking my charcoal darkness into one thousand pieces

i become thin like a spider's web

Morning paints my half asleep heart

in rainbow colors of joy

i finally welcome the sun

i finally welcome you

beside me.