Mary Oliver, Save Me

Mary Oliver, 
 How I Wish I Had The Courage To Run Away 
 As You Did Into The Forests And Eating Blackberries 
 And Filling My Hunger With Poems And Songs 
 But Instead I Lie Here 
 With A Pounding Head 
 And The Hairs Of My Ears 
 Crumbled And Stressed
 And The Heavy Weight Of My Jaw 
 And The Length Of My Head 

 Instead, I Wait Here In These Steel Buildings 
 With The Freedom To Leave 
 But Having Been Captive So Long 
 I Know Not Where Lies The Key 
 And I Rest In The Day And Wake In The Night 

 Mary Oliver- Save Me! 
 For In These Buildings I’ve Lost The Key 
 I’ve Lost The Will To Leave 
 Because Outside Is Raining 
 And The Dumpster Smells And Seeps Into The Pavement 

 I Am Afraid Of The Sun 
 And No More Do I Dance 
 No More Do I Sing 
 And The Sadness In Entrenched In My Poetry 
 Entombed And Encrypted In The Silence Of Bygone Songs 
 Composed In The Light 
 And Ceased In The Night. 
 Mary Oliver Show Me How To Write 
 Show Me How To Leave