When you broke into the home of me I said “I love you” and gave you the key Later you thought to return it as shards were cutting our feet Return?! You did not see It secured to your heart as roots of a tree.
Though now our feet have traversed through many miles & spaces & lives & our hearts have grown, are submersed in a couple or four loves (or five?) Those wounds now healed, with callouses grown. . . Yet I think you still own the key to my home.
Those shards of glass knives That sliced us apart I swept into a furnace Aflame in my heart Once molten I shaped them into fanciful art Now hung on the walls (mingling sweet with the ****) of spaces held secret, where memories restart.
Is there a chance You’d ever unearth that key? Do you even desire To wander the halls of me? I wish you would find it Re-enter this door Make me your home and more. . .
Would you run through your night Lock us inside Together we’d hide In the rooms of our minds Together we’d hang New art we would form Together we’d wake To a fresh beautiful morn.
Come, a new key we’ll cut Find fantasies fresh Build a shared house for hearts long enmeshed.
Originally published April 18, 2022 | extensive rewrite August 14, 2025