This poem is excerpted from Embers & Amber, a collection of poetry by Candice Landau that explores love, loss, memory, and becoming. Note: some spacing has been stripped due to WordPress formatting issues.
This One’s For Me
For once I want to write a poem
That can hold me in its arms
And cradle me when I cry
That is just for me and not because
Someone else did something terrible or beautiful.
Why is it so easy to let everything slip
When I have spent months carefully weaving
A web to mend my shatter
To catch my tears like dew?
I want to settle into a moment
That I can return to in the future
Unattached to anyone but grounded
In the world that is rocks and rivers
Birds and rain, a feeling of calm and hope
Looking out across time I have not explored.
