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I Am November

I am November, the chilling winds  
blend with the conditions in my heart  
My heart blends with 13 years of not  
blending to the conditions very well  
 
I am December, the morning shares  
the same blackness as the nights  
To which I divert from the light  
calling for the morning to prolong its darkness  
 
I am January, 5 days since you first said  
my full name without a word being spoken  
As my ice dispenses a single drop  
unfelt before you appeared in a shadowy halo  
 
I am February, too soon to whisper  
three words into your untested by me ears  
Though 14 days in, I find comfort there  
while you reach for the top shelf of doubt  
 
I am March,  uncertainty keeps the ground  
wrapped in snow and the lake waits for  
Lovers to fall deep into its trap  
one in which we barely escape  
 
I am April, change has captured a soul  
within the song of a bird that decides  
Not to fly but instead make a home  
of old leaves and unbloomed flowers  
 
I am May, now into the 5th month  
of finding a home, a shelter for brokeness  
A hand to be unheld but very much held  
in a quiver of complete togetherness  
 
I am June, there is sun...vigorous sun  
shining across ponds and glistening into  
Conversations of a life to be lived and others  
to be brought into our world, our home within us  
 
I am July, I am tired and battered  
by the maybes and some days  
I am restless in a worn shell  
that dreams of being in that lake still  
 
I am August, gardens have given of themselves  
and now drift into the acceptance of expiration  
There in all that grayness of upcoming death we find  
the tethers of a tomorrow bonding our ankles to the bedposts  
 
I am September, how the moments now go do not  
will not and can not matter because  
I am you and you are me and from this month on  
we breathe in the love and only exhale to the Heavens  
 
I am October, I am blessed by the cool air  
that rises from an imported breeze  
that has taken this heart, the one once frozen  
and given it a beat, a hop and always a skip
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