Thank you

"Thank you

Thank you for the silence,

warm brown eyes

mopping up my tears,

refracting the shrapnel.

Dampen the echo

of our hollow cavern,

fill it, if you can,

like a magician

with something out of nothing.

My age has doubled overnight

from twenty-one to forty-five,

I was never twenty-one,

I was frozen;

a frightened frozen section

shrunken in the vaulted hollow;

you were my umbilical cord

and I thank you."