Accountability - brought about by random thoughts beside the shore

Accountability

 

Nothing haunts

Like a stargazer’s memory

Unfathomed and reborn

Each thought unfurled

To take its place amongst the clouds

 

No reason

Never enough time

Or ample space

To set apart what was

From what was never meant to be

 

For so long

I blamed the wind

Believed it told me secrets

Always turning into lies

Either way I said I’d never tell

 

Once I thought

The fault lay with the sand

And then the stars, the moon

The sun, the sky

And finally the rain outside my door

 

It had to be

So little of myself

So much of you, all intertwined

Love beginning now to breathe

Fashioning ideas in its wake

 

Oh please come true

If only once, if only now

With everything so right, so well aligned

How could it not endure

And spread its wings?

 

The simple truth

So immaterial

Standing here with no one

And nothing left to blame this time...

But me