(for David Coomes)
One morning early,
before what used to be breakfast,
you sigh finally, like a breeze,
step out of the moral maze
and into something quite new,
unproduced, unscripted
The pain disappears,
not gradually but all at once,
replaced by something cool and warm
and healing:
something quite new
Through unexpected channels
you give birth to yourself, look round,
breathe out:
someone is holding you
and there is no sea
The touching clumsiness of old life falls away, and
you move in different directions,
impossibly free
You reach out for heaven again
and touch it
easily